Tweaking of radiation and chemotherapy schedules is the new normal during the COVID-19 crisis: perspective from oncologists at a tertiary care health institute

Patients with cancer are at a higher risk of infection with Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus-2 (SARS-COV-2) than the general population. In India, it has become a significant health problem of utmost importance, and India’s Government has issued health advisories. Lockdown brought many...

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Autores principales: Barik, Sandip Kumar, Dhar, Sovan Sarang, Majumdar, Saroj Kumar Das, Parida, Dillip Kumar
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cancer Intelligence 2021
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Short Communication
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7929775/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33680091
http://dx.doi.org/10.3332/ecancer.2021.1177
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author Barik, Sandip Kumar
Dhar, Sovan Sarang
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description Patients with cancer are at a higher risk of infection with Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus-2 (SARS-COV-2) than the general population. In India, it has become a significant health problem of utmost importance, and India’s Government has issued health advisories. Lockdown brought many unforeseen problems for patients and hospitals, leading to confusion and chaos. The aim of this article is to identify various issues related to our hospital, follow-up, nutrition, treatment and psychosocial issues. Multiple changes were made in the hospital, departmental and treatment policy for cancer patients’ convenience and safety. As India is in the peak of COVID-19, these types of modifications and modifications of treatment schedules will be the ‘New Normal’.
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spelling pubmed-79297752021-03-05 Tweaking of radiation and chemotherapy schedules is the new normal during the COVID-19 crisis: perspective from oncologists at a tertiary care health institute Barik, Sandip Kumar Dhar, Sovan Sarang Majumdar, Saroj Kumar Das Parida, Dillip Kumar Ecancermedicalscience Short Communication Patients with cancer are at a higher risk of infection with Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus-2 (SARS-COV-2) than the general population. In India, it has become a significant health problem of utmost importance, and India’s Government has issued health advisories. Lockdown brought many unforeseen problems for patients and hospitals, leading to confusion and chaos. The aim of this article is to identify various issues related to our hospital, follow-up, nutrition, treatment and psychosocial issues. Multiple changes were made in the hospital, departmental and treatment policy for cancer patients’ convenience and safety. As India is in the peak of COVID-19, these types of modifications and modifications of treatment schedules will be the ‘New Normal’. Cancer Intelligence 2021-01-22 /pmc/articles/PMC7929775/ /pubmed/33680091 http://dx.doi.org/10.3332/ecancer.2021.1177 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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title Tweaking of radiation and chemotherapy schedules is the new normal during the COVID-19 crisis: perspective from oncologists at a tertiary care health institute
title_full Tweaking of radiation and chemotherapy schedules is the new normal during the COVID-19 crisis: perspective from oncologists at a tertiary care health institute
title_fullStr Tweaking of radiation and chemotherapy schedules is the new normal during the COVID-19 crisis: perspective from oncologists at a tertiary care health institute
title_full_unstemmed Tweaking of radiation and chemotherapy schedules is the new normal during the COVID-19 crisis: perspective from oncologists at a tertiary care health institute
title_short Tweaking of radiation and chemotherapy schedules is the new normal during the COVID-19 crisis: perspective from oncologists at a tertiary care health institute
title_sort tweaking of radiation and chemotherapy schedules is the new normal during the covid-19 crisis: perspective from oncologists at a tertiary care health institute
topic Short Communication
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7929775/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33680091
http://dx.doi.org/10.3332/ecancer.2021.1177
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