Negative impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the management of cervical cancer patients in Zambia

International travel has largely been suspended due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Due to this situation, Zambia has not been able to import radioactive isotopes for High Dose Rate (HDR) brachytherapy, Iridium 192 (I192) and this has led to suspension of treatment for patients. Cancer of the cervix is th...

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Autores principales: Lombe, Dorothy, Phiri, Misheck, Msadabwe, Susan
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cancer Intelligence 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7373645/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32728388
http://dx.doi.org/10.3332/ecancer.2020.ed103
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description International travel has largely been suspended due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Due to this situation, Zambia has not been able to import radioactive isotopes for High Dose Rate (HDR) brachytherapy, Iridium 192 (I192) and this has led to suspension of treatment for patients. Cancer of the cervix is the most common cancer in Zambia and brachytherapy is a core component of the treatment armamentarium. Mitigation strategies may include external beam radiotherapy boost or hysterectomy but both systems are overburdened and fragile.
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spelling pubmed-73736452020-07-28 Negative impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the management of cervical cancer patients in Zambia Lombe, Dorothy Phiri, Misheck Msadabwe, Susan Ecancermedicalscience Editorial International travel has largely been suspended due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Due to this situation, Zambia has not been able to import radioactive isotopes for High Dose Rate (HDR) brachytherapy, Iridium 192 (I192) and this has led to suspension of treatment for patients. Cancer of the cervix is the most common cancer in Zambia and brachytherapy is a core component of the treatment armamentarium. Mitigation strategies may include external beam radiotherapy boost or hysterectomy but both systems are overburdened and fragile. Cancer Intelligence 2020-07-07 /pmc/articles/PMC7373645/ /pubmed/32728388 http://dx.doi.org/10.3332/ecancer.2020.ed103 Text en © the authors; licensee ecancermedicalscience. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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