Residents Across the Globe: A Call for Education, Advocacy, and Collaboration

The fallout from the COVID-19 pandemic and the war in Ukraine have resulted in unprecedented delays in cancer care. The Global Coalition for Radiotherapy (GCR) has been working to alleviate this backlog and has been functioning as an emergency task force in Ukraine. Not only have patients been displ...

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Autores principales: McComas, Kyra N., Laird, Darien
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier 2022
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Brief Opinion
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9385401/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35996630
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.adro.2022.101018
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description The fallout from the COVID-19 pandemic and the war in Ukraine have resulted in unprecedented delays in cancer care. The Global Coalition for Radiotherapy (GCR) has been working to alleviate this backlog and has been functioning as an emergency task force in Ukraine. Not only have patients been displaced by the war, but trainees and physicians have been greatly impacted as well. Given that radiation is needed to treat over half of all cancer cases, it is imperative to advocate for radiation oncology as a field and collaborate globally, especially as trainees.
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spelling pubmed-93854012022-08-18 Residents Across the Globe: A Call for Education, Advocacy, and Collaboration McComas, Kyra N. Laird, Darien Adv Radiat Oncol Brief Opinion The fallout from the COVID-19 pandemic and the war in Ukraine have resulted in unprecedented delays in cancer care. The Global Coalition for Radiotherapy (GCR) has been working to alleviate this backlog and has been functioning as an emergency task force in Ukraine. Not only have patients been displaced by the war, but trainees and physicians have been greatly impacted as well. Given that radiation is needed to treat over half of all cancer cases, it is imperative to advocate for radiation oncology as a field and collaborate globally, especially as trainees. Elsevier 2022-08-18 /pmc/articles/PMC9385401/ /pubmed/35996630 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.adro.2022.101018 Text en © 2022 The Author(s) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/).
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