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Coping With Oral Tongue Cancer and COVID-19 Infection
To date, April 19, 2021, the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) caused about 140,886,773 confirmed cases and more than 3,000,000 deaths worldwide since the beginning of the pandemic. Oncology patients are usually frail due to the fear of prognosis, recurrence, and outcomes of treatments. Thus, copi...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8241927/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34220559 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyt.2021.562502 |
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author | De Berardinis, Rita Guiddi, Paolo Ugolini, Sara Chu, Francesco Pietrobon, Giacomo Pravettoni, Gabriella Mastrilli, Fabrizio Chiocca, Susanna Ansarin, Mohssen Tagliabue, Marta |
author_facet | De Berardinis, Rita Guiddi, Paolo Ugolini, Sara Chu, Francesco Pietrobon, Giacomo Pravettoni, Gabriella Mastrilli, Fabrizio Chiocca, Susanna Ansarin, Mohssen Tagliabue, Marta |
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description | To date, April 19, 2021, the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) caused about 140,886,773 confirmed cases and more than 3,000,000 deaths worldwide since the beginning of the pandemic. Oncology patients are usually frail due to the fear of prognosis, recurrence, and outcomes of treatments. Thus, coping with cancer is a complicated process that is necessary to overcome oncological challenge, even more in case of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) disease. This is a brief case report on a middle-aged man affected by advanced oral tongue cancer and COVID-19, describing his experience of cancer diagnosis, surgical treatment, and rehabilitation during the hospital quarantine for COVID-19. Besides the traumatic experience due to the functional alteration in breathing, eating, and speaking caused by major surgery and the concurrent facial disfigurement, our patient had to face a COVID-19 diagnosis, which implied hospital and social isolation. The aim of this perspective work is to focus on the role of the psychological support in the management of hospital distress related to COVID-19 psychophysical loneliness or alienation. In our experience, such support should anticipate patients' oncological surgery or treatment and should be implemented through telemedicine in case of isolation or after hospital discharge. |
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spelling | pubmed-82419272021-07-01 Coping With Oral Tongue Cancer and COVID-19 Infection De Berardinis, Rita Guiddi, Paolo Ugolini, Sara Chu, Francesco Pietrobon, Giacomo Pravettoni, Gabriella Mastrilli, Fabrizio Chiocca, Susanna Ansarin, Mohssen Tagliabue, Marta Front Psychiatry Psychiatry To date, April 19, 2021, the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) caused about 140,886,773 confirmed cases and more than 3,000,000 deaths worldwide since the beginning of the pandemic. Oncology patients are usually frail due to the fear of prognosis, recurrence, and outcomes of treatments. Thus, coping with cancer is a complicated process that is necessary to overcome oncological challenge, even more in case of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) disease. This is a brief case report on a middle-aged man affected by advanced oral tongue cancer and COVID-19, describing his experience of cancer diagnosis, surgical treatment, and rehabilitation during the hospital quarantine for COVID-19. Besides the traumatic experience due to the functional alteration in breathing, eating, and speaking caused by major surgery and the concurrent facial disfigurement, our patient had to face a COVID-19 diagnosis, which implied hospital and social isolation. The aim of this perspective work is to focus on the role of the psychological support in the management of hospital distress related to COVID-19 psychophysical loneliness or alienation. In our experience, such support should anticipate patients' oncological surgery or treatment and should be implemented through telemedicine in case of isolation or after hospital discharge. Frontiers Media S.A. 2021-06-16 /pmc/articles/PMC8241927/ /pubmed/34220559 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyt.2021.562502 Text en Copyright © 2021 De Berardinis, Guiddi, Ugolini, Chu, Pietrobon, Pravettoni, Mastrilli, Chiocca, Ansarin and Tagliabue. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms. |
spellingShingle | Psychiatry De Berardinis, Rita Guiddi, Paolo Ugolini, Sara Chu, Francesco Pietrobon, Giacomo Pravettoni, Gabriella Mastrilli, Fabrizio Chiocca, Susanna Ansarin, Mohssen Tagliabue, Marta Coping With Oral Tongue Cancer and COVID-19 Infection |
title | Coping With Oral Tongue Cancer and COVID-19 Infection |
title_full | Coping With Oral Tongue Cancer and COVID-19 Infection |
title_fullStr | Coping With Oral Tongue Cancer and COVID-19 Infection |
title_full_unstemmed | Coping With Oral Tongue Cancer and COVID-19 Infection |
title_short | Coping With Oral Tongue Cancer and COVID-19 Infection |
title_sort | coping with oral tongue cancer and covid-19 infection |
topic | Psychiatry |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8241927/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34220559 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyt.2021.562502 |
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