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Cancer care during the COVID-19 pandemic: a perspective from Saudi Arabia
The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic continues to disrupt many healthcare settings worldwide including cancer care. COVID-19 has been associated with worse outcomes amongst cancer patients. Saudi Arabia has experienced several Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV) outbr...
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Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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Cancer Intelligence
2020
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7434509/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32863870 http://dx.doi.org/10.3332/ecancer.2020.1076 |
Sumario: | The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic continues to disrupt many healthcare settings worldwide including cancer care. COVID-19 has been associated with worse outcomes amongst cancer patients. Saudi Arabia has experienced several Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV) outbreaks that affected the continuity of cancer care. In this paper, we describe how Saudi Arabia responded to COVID-19, how cancer care was re-restructured during this pandemic and how the recent MERS-CoV experience may have improved the Saudi response to COVID-19. |
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