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Tackling brain metastases from lung cancer during the COVID‐19 pandemic

Given the enormous strain the COVID‐19 pandemic has put on healthcare worldwide, appropriate allocation of resources according to priority is of immense importance. As brain metastases are a common presentation in lung cancer, during the pandemic, it potentially can pose a major management challenge...

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Autores principales: Mummudi, Naveen, Tibdewal, Anil, Gupta, Tejpal, Patil, Vijay, Prabhash, Kumar, Agarwal, Jai Prakash
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9124513/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32881412
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/cnr2.1276
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author Mummudi, Naveen
Tibdewal, Anil
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Patil, Vijay
Prabhash, Kumar
Agarwal, Jai Prakash
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description Given the enormous strain the COVID‐19 pandemic has put on healthcare worldwide, appropriate allocation of resources according to priority is of immense importance. As brain metastases are a common presentation in lung cancer, during the pandemic, it potentially can pose a major management challenge to clinicians. In this article, we outline a pragmatic approach that oncologists should consider while managing these patients. The overarching principle is to deliver best, evidence‐based treatment without compromising patient care while ensuring the safety of healthcare workers.
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spelling pubmed-91245132022-05-25 Tackling brain metastases from lung cancer during the COVID‐19 pandemic Mummudi, Naveen Tibdewal, Anil Gupta, Tejpal Patil, Vijay Prabhash, Kumar Agarwal, Jai Prakash Cancer Rep (Hoboken) Opinion Given the enormous strain the COVID‐19 pandemic has put on healthcare worldwide, appropriate allocation of resources according to priority is of immense importance. As brain metastases are a common presentation in lung cancer, during the pandemic, it potentially can pose a major management challenge to clinicians. In this article, we outline a pragmatic approach that oncologists should consider while managing these patients. The overarching principle is to deliver best, evidence‐based treatment without compromising patient care while ensuring the safety of healthcare workers. John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2020-09-03 /pmc/articles/PMC9124513/ /pubmed/32881412 http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/cnr2.1276 Text en © 2020 The Authors. Cancer Reports published by Wiley Periodicals LLC. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open access article under the terms of the http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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