Oncology and COVID-19: Perspectives on cancer patients and oncologists in Africa

The global communities have been grappling with health pandemics for months since the outbreak of COVID-19, which has been flagged a global health emergency by World Health Organisation, WHO. While the entire health sector has been overburdened, cancer patients are also at a high risk of getting inf...

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Autores principales: Okeke, M., Oderinde, O., Liu, L., Kabula, D.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier Masson SAS. 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7298482/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32835064
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jemep.2020.100550
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spelling pubmed-72984822020-06-17 Oncology and COVID-19: Perspectives on cancer patients and oncologists in Africa Okeke, M. Oderinde, O. Liu, L. Kabula, D. Ethics Med Public Health Article The global communities have been grappling with health pandemics for months since the outbreak of COVID-19, which has been flagged a global health emergency by World Health Organisation, WHO. While the entire health sector has been overburdened, cancer patients are also at a high risk of getting infected during this COVID-19 pandemic; hence, there is a great concern for these patients because there is little to no data to support their management with the current health care structure in Africa. This article outlines the challenges that frontline health workers face in the management of cancer patients, as the entire health sector calls for effective policy formulation and implementation by the government in their role in ensuring the sound health of their citizenry. Elsevier Masson SAS. 2020 2020-06-17 /pmc/articles/PMC7298482/ /pubmed/32835064 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jemep.2020.100550 Text en © 2020 Elsevier Masson SAS. All rights reserved. Since January 2020 Elsevier has created a COVID-19 resource centre with free information in English and Mandarin on the novel coronavirus COVID-19. The COVID-19 resource centre is hosted on Elsevier Connect, the company's public news and information website. Elsevier hereby grants permission to make all its COVID-19-related research that is available on the COVID-19 resource centre - including this research content - immediately available in PubMed Central and other publicly funded repositories, such as the WHO COVID database with rights for unrestricted research re-use and analyses in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for free by Elsevier for as long as the COVID-19 resource centre remains active.
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