Perspective: Cancer Patient Management Challenges During the COVID-19 Pandemic

On March 11, 2020, the WHO has declared the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) a global pandemic. As the last few months have profoundly changed the delivery of health care in the world, we should recognize the effort of numerous comprehensive cancer centers to share experiences and knowledge to de...

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Autores principales: Terracciano, Daniela, Buonerba, Carlo, Scafuri, Luca, De Berardinis, Piergiuseppe, Calin, George A., Ferrajoli, Alessandra, Fabbri, Muller, Cimmino, Amelia
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Frontiers Media S.A. 2020
Materias:
Oncology
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7489342/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32984015
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fonc.2020.01556
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author Terracciano, Daniela
Buonerba, Carlo
Scafuri, Luca
De Berardinis, Piergiuseppe
Calin, George A.
Ferrajoli, Alessandra
Fabbri, Muller
Cimmino, Amelia
author_facet Terracciano, Daniela
Buonerba, Carlo
Scafuri, Luca
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Calin, George A.
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description On March 11, 2020, the WHO has declared the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) a global pandemic. As the last few months have profoundly changed the delivery of health care in the world, we should recognize the effort of numerous comprehensive cancer centers to share experiences and knowledge to develop best practices to care for oncological patients during the COVID-19 pandemic. Patients as well as physicians must be aware of all these constraints and profound social, personal, and medical challenges posed by the tackling of this deadly disease in everyday life in order to adjust to such a completely novel scenario. This review will discuss facing the challenges and the current approaches that cancer centers in Italy and United States are adopting in order to cope with clinical and research activities.
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spelling pubmed-74893422020-09-25 Perspective: Cancer Patient Management Challenges During the COVID-19 Pandemic Terracciano, Daniela Buonerba, Carlo Scafuri, Luca De Berardinis, Piergiuseppe Calin, George A. Ferrajoli, Alessandra Fabbri, Muller Cimmino, Amelia Front Oncol Oncology On March 11, 2020, the WHO has declared the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) a global pandemic. As the last few months have profoundly changed the delivery of health care in the world, we should recognize the effort of numerous comprehensive cancer centers to share experiences and knowledge to develop best practices to care for oncological patients during the COVID-19 pandemic. Patients as well as physicians must be aware of all these constraints and profound social, personal, and medical challenges posed by the tackling of this deadly disease in everyday life in order to adjust to such a completely novel scenario. This review will discuss facing the challenges and the current approaches that cancer centers in Italy and United States are adopting in order to cope with clinical and research activities. Frontiers Media S.A. 2020-08-18 /pmc/articles/PMC7489342/ /pubmed/32984015 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fonc.2020.01556 Text en Copyright © 2020 Terracciano, Buonerba, Scafuri, De Berardinis, Calin, Ferrajoli, Fabbri and Cimmino. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
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Ferrajoli, Alessandra
Fabbri, Muller
Cimmino, Amelia
Perspective: Cancer Patient Management Challenges During the COVID-19 Pandemic
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7489342/
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