Managing a Locally Advanced Cervix Cancer Patient With COVID-19: Lessons Learned

We present the case of a woman diagnosed with coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) while undergoing chemoradiation for locally advanced cervix cancer. This diagnosis had implications for the treatment of her cancer, and a number of important decisions had to be made. We present the issues that arose...

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Autores principales: D'Souza, David, Velker, Vikram M, Mendez, Lucas, Lang, Pencilla, Sugimoto, Akira
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2020
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Obstetrics/Gynecology
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7524020/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33005550
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.10138
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author D'Souza, David
Velker, Vikram M
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description We present the case of a woman diagnosed with coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) while undergoing chemoradiation for locally advanced cervix cancer. This diagnosis had implications for the treatment of her cancer, and a number of important decisions had to be made. We present the issues that arose and how her oncologic care was managed.
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spelling pubmed-75240202020-09-30 Managing a Locally Advanced Cervix Cancer Patient With COVID-19: Lessons Learned D'Souza, David Velker, Vikram M Mendez, Lucas Lang, Pencilla Sugimoto, Akira Cureus Obstetrics/Gynecology We present the case of a woman diagnosed with coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) while undergoing chemoradiation for locally advanced cervix cancer. This diagnosis had implications for the treatment of her cancer, and a number of important decisions had to be made. We present the issues that arose and how her oncologic care was managed. Cureus 2020-08-30 /pmc/articles/PMC7524020/ /pubmed/33005550 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.10138 Text en Copyright © 2020, D'Souza et al. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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topic Obstetrics/Gynecology
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7524020/
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