Cancer treatment during the COVID-19 pandemic in the Kurdistan Region of northern Iraq

The announcement of the COVID-19 pandemic by the World Health Organisation in March 2020 and the spread of coronavirus in most parts of the world, including Iraq, have posed severe challenges to the management of cancer patients both psychologically and logistically. Special experts at Hiwa Cancer H...

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Autores principales: Nidhamalddin, Sara Jamil, Hasan, Rozhan Omer, Abubakr, Govar Othman
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Publicado: Cancer Intelligence 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7532030/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33082846
http://dx.doi.org/10.3332/ecancer.2020.1096
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description The announcement of the COVID-19 pandemic by the World Health Organisation in March 2020 and the spread of coronavirus in most parts of the world, including Iraq, have posed severe challenges to the management of cancer patients both psychologically and logistically. Special experts at Hiwa Cancer Hospital, Iraq, took serious action aimed to decrease and prevent the spread of the virus among cancer patients while maintaining standard treatment protocols through compiling expert consensus, focusing on the prevention of COVID-19 and cancer patient management.
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spelling pubmed-75320302020-10-19 Cancer treatment during the COVID-19 pandemic in the Kurdistan Region of northern Iraq Nidhamalddin, Sara Jamil Hasan, Rozhan Omer Abubakr, Govar Othman Ecancermedicalscience Policy The announcement of the COVID-19 pandemic by the World Health Organisation in March 2020 and the spread of coronavirus in most parts of the world, including Iraq, have posed severe challenges to the management of cancer patients both psychologically and logistically. Special experts at Hiwa Cancer Hospital, Iraq, took serious action aimed to decrease and prevent the spread of the virus among cancer patients while maintaining standard treatment protocols through compiling expert consensus, focusing on the prevention of COVID-19 and cancer patient management. Cancer Intelligence 2020-09-01 /pmc/articles/PMC7532030/ /pubmed/33082846 http://dx.doi.org/10.3332/ecancer.2020.1096 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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