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Management of cervical cancer during the corona virus disease-19 (COVID-19) era

COVID-19 pandemic has had a catastrophic impact on the society, economy and heath-care system all over the globe with virus showing no signs of losing potency. As the situation appears to worsen, extra burden on other specialities like oncology seems to increase. Specific recommendations are necessa...

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Autores principales: Dewan, Abhinav, Mitra, Swarupa, Aggarwal, Sumeet, Barik, Soumitra, Kaur, Inderjeet, Umesh, Preetha, Dewan, Rupali
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: The British Institute of Radiology. 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7774674/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33216637
http://dx.doi.org/10.1259/bjr.20200686
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author Dewan, Abhinav
Mitra, Swarupa
Aggarwal, Sumeet
Barik, Soumitra
Kaur, Inderjeet
Umesh, Preetha
Dewan, Rupali
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description COVID-19 pandemic has had a catastrophic impact on the society, economy and heath-care system all over the globe with virus showing no signs of losing potency. As the situation appears to worsen, extra burden on other specialities like oncology seems to increase. Specific recommendations are necessary for management of cervical cancer in the current context. All concerned specialities must work together in the best interest of the patient. Attempts should be made at managing cervical cancer while limiting the viral spread among the patients and health-care workers without the loss of opportunity. Surgical intervention for early cervical cancer should be postponed or alternative modalities be considered. In a locally advanced disease, concurrent chemoradiation is the treatment of choice. In addition, the following under mentioned suggestions aim to discuss ways of minimizing infection spread, workload rationalization and providing guidance for management of cervical cancer in the presence of COVID-19 infection.
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spelling pubmed-77746742021-10-18 Management of cervical cancer during the corona virus disease-19 (COVID-19) era Dewan, Abhinav Mitra, Swarupa Aggarwal, Sumeet Barik, Soumitra Kaur, Inderjeet Umesh, Preetha Dewan, Rupali Br J Radiol Review Article COVID-19 pandemic has had a catastrophic impact on the society, economy and heath-care system all over the globe with virus showing no signs of losing potency. As the situation appears to worsen, extra burden on other specialities like oncology seems to increase. Specific recommendations are necessary for management of cervical cancer in the current context. All concerned specialities must work together in the best interest of the patient. Attempts should be made at managing cervical cancer while limiting the viral spread among the patients and health-care workers without the loss of opportunity. Surgical intervention for early cervical cancer should be postponed or alternative modalities be considered. In a locally advanced disease, concurrent chemoradiation is the treatment of choice. In addition, the following under mentioned suggestions aim to discuss ways of minimizing infection spread, workload rationalization and providing guidance for management of cervical cancer in the presence of COVID-19 infection. The British Institute of Radiology. 2021-01-01 2020-11-20 /pmc/articles/PMC7774674/ /pubmed/33216637 http://dx.doi.org/10.1259/bjr.20200686 Text en © 2021 The Authors. Published by the British Institute of Radiology https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 Unported License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) , which permits unrestricted use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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Management of cervical cancer during the corona virus disease-19 (COVID-19) era
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http://dx.doi.org/10.1259/bjr.20200686
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