Treating COVID-19 Positive Cancer Patients With Radiation Therapy: A Case Report From Epicenter of the Pandemic

The coronavirus disease 2019 (SARS-Cov-2 or COVID-19) pandemic has resulted in unprecedented clinical challenges across the globe. Outcomes of patients with this infection are likely dependent on underlying comorbidities that predict worse outcome in older patients. However, it is unknown whether CO...

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Autores principales: Parashar, Bhupesh, Lee, Lucille, Madu, Chika, Narayana, Ashwatha, Potters, Louis
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2020
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Radiation Oncology
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7725194/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33312829
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.11967
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author Parashar, Bhupesh
Lee, Lucille
Madu, Chika
Narayana, Ashwatha
Potters, Louis
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description The coronavirus disease 2019 (SARS-Cov-2 or COVID-19) pandemic has resulted in unprecedented clinical challenges across the globe. Outcomes of patients with this infection are likely dependent on underlying comorbidities that predict worse outcome in older patients. However, it is unknown whether COVID-19 infected cancer patients receiving radiation therapy (RT) have any different outcome than non-infected patients. We present the first series from our center of COVID-19 infected patients who received RT for malignancy, their outcome, and toxicities.
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spelling pubmed-77251942020-12-10 Treating COVID-19 Positive Cancer Patients With Radiation Therapy: A Case Report From Epicenter of the Pandemic Parashar, Bhupesh Lee, Lucille Madu, Chika Narayana, Ashwatha Potters, Louis Cureus Radiation Oncology The coronavirus disease 2019 (SARS-Cov-2 or COVID-19) pandemic has resulted in unprecedented clinical challenges across the globe. Outcomes of patients with this infection are likely dependent on underlying comorbidities that predict worse outcome in older patients. However, it is unknown whether COVID-19 infected cancer patients receiving radiation therapy (RT) have any different outcome than non-infected patients. We present the first series from our center of COVID-19 infected patients who received RT for malignancy, their outcome, and toxicities. Cureus 2020-12-08 /pmc/articles/PMC7725194/ /pubmed/33312829 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.11967 Text en Copyright © 2020, Parashar 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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Treating COVID-19 Positive Cancer Patients With Radiation Therapy: A Case Report From Epicenter of the Pandemic
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title_full Treating COVID-19 Positive Cancer Patients With Radiation Therapy: A Case Report From Epicenter of the Pandemic
title_fullStr Treating COVID-19 Positive Cancer Patients With Radiation Therapy: A Case Report From Epicenter of the Pandemic
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title_short Treating COVID-19 Positive Cancer Patients With Radiation Therapy: A Case Report From Epicenter of the Pandemic
title_sort treating covid-19 positive cancer patients with radiation therapy: a case report from epicenter of the pandemic
topic Radiation Oncology
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7725194/
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http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.11967
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