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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Autores principales: Alessy, Saleh A, Davies, Elizabeth A, Jazieh, Abdul-Rahman
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cancer Intelligence 2020
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Short Communication
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
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description 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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spelling pubmed-74345092020-08-28 Cancer care during the COVID-19 pandemic: a perspective from Saudi Arabia Alessy, Saleh A Davies, Elizabeth A Jazieh, Abdul-Rahman Ecancermedicalscience Short Communication 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. Cancer Intelligence 2020-07-17 /pmc/articles/PMC7434509/ /pubmed/32863870 http://dx.doi.org/10.3332/ecancer.2020.1076 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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