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The Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Oncology Care and Clinical Trials
SIMPLE SUMMARY: The coronavirus pandemic has had a considerable impact on all parts of society. Unsurprisingly, healthcare has been particularly affected, including cancer care and trials of new drugs. This article will summarize the impact the pandemic has had on cancer healthcare taking into consi...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8656780/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34885038 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/cancers13235924 |
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description | SIMPLE SUMMARY: The coronavirus pandemic has had a considerable impact on all parts of society. Unsurprisingly, healthcare has been particularly affected, including cancer care and trials of new drugs. This article will summarize the impact the pandemic has had on cancer healthcare taking into consideration how the pandemic affected potential cancer patients and stopped them seeking medical advice for new symptoms. The pandemic also affected the ability of people to access healthcare services and undergo the tests necessary to diagnose cancer. This article will also discuss the impact of the pandemic on existing treatments and the trials of new drugs. In light of the unprecedented speed of development of new treatments and vaccines for the virus itself, it will also review whether some of these adaptations could be used to accelerate the development of novel cancer therapies. ABSTRACT: The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has caused considerable global disruption to clinical practice. This article will review the impact that the pandemic has had on oncology clinical trials. It will assess the effect of the COVID-19 situation on the initial presentation and investigation of patients with suspected cancer. It will also review the impact of the pandemic on the subsequent management of cancer patients, and how clinical trial approval, recruitment, and conduct were affected during the pandemic. An intriguing aspect of the pandemic is that clinical trials investigating treatments for COVID-19 and vaccinations against the causative virus, SARS-CoV-2, have been approved and conducted at an unprecedented speed. In light of this, this review will also discuss the potential that this enhanced regulatory environment could have on the running of oncology clinical trials in the future. |
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spelling | pubmed-86567802021-12-10 The Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Oncology Care and Clinical Trials Ali, Jennyfa K. Riches, John C. Cancers (Basel) Review SIMPLE SUMMARY: The coronavirus pandemic has had a considerable impact on all parts of society. Unsurprisingly, healthcare has been particularly affected, including cancer care and trials of new drugs. This article will summarize the impact the pandemic has had on cancer healthcare taking into consideration how the pandemic affected potential cancer patients and stopped them seeking medical advice for new symptoms. The pandemic also affected the ability of people to access healthcare services and undergo the tests necessary to diagnose cancer. This article will also discuss the impact of the pandemic on existing treatments and the trials of new drugs. In light of the unprecedented speed of development of new treatments and vaccines for the virus itself, it will also review whether some of these adaptations could be used to accelerate the development of novel cancer therapies. ABSTRACT: The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has caused considerable global disruption to clinical practice. This article will review the impact that the pandemic has had on oncology clinical trials. It will assess the effect of the COVID-19 situation on the initial presentation and investigation of patients with suspected cancer. It will also review the impact of the pandemic on the subsequent management of cancer patients, and how clinical trial approval, recruitment, and conduct were affected during the pandemic. An intriguing aspect of the pandemic is that clinical trials investigating treatments for COVID-19 and vaccinations against the causative virus, SARS-CoV-2, have been approved and conducted at an unprecedented speed. In light of this, this review will also discuss the potential that this enhanced regulatory environment could have on the running of oncology clinical trials in the future. MDPI 2021-11-25 /pmc/articles/PMC8656780/ /pubmed/34885038 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/cancers13235924 Text en © 2021 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
spellingShingle | Review Ali, Jennyfa K. Riches, John C. The Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Oncology Care and Clinical Trials |
title | The Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Oncology Care and Clinical Trials |
title_full | The Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Oncology Care and Clinical Trials |
title_fullStr | The Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Oncology Care and Clinical Trials |
title_full_unstemmed | The Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Oncology Care and Clinical Trials |
title_short | The Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Oncology Care and Clinical Trials |
title_sort | impact of the covid-19 pandemic on oncology care and clinical trials |
topic | Review |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8656780/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34885038 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/cancers13235924 |
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