Oncology during the COVID‑19 pandemic: challenges, dilemmas and the psychosocial impact on cancer patients (Review)
Year: 2020
Type: review
Abstract: COVID-19 has caused unprecedented societal turmoil, triggering a rapid, still ongoing, transformation of healthcare provision on a global level. In this new landscape, it is highly important to acknowledge the challenges this pandemic poses on the care of the particularly vulnerable cancer patients and the subsequent psychosocial impact on them. We have outlined our clinical experience in managing patients with gastrointestinal, hematological, gynaecological, dermatological, neurological, thyroid, lung and paediatric cancers in the COVID-19 era and have reviewed the emerging literature around barriers to care of oncology patients and how this crisis affects them. Moreover, evolving treatment strategies and novel ways of addressing the needs of oncology patients in the new context of the pandemic are discussed.
Source: Oncology Letters
Authors: Konstantinos Tsamakis, Maria Gavriatopoulou, Dimitrios Schizas, Athina Stravodimou, Aikaterini Mougkou, Dimitrios Tsiptsios, Vasileios Sioulas, Eleftherios Spartalis, Athanasios Sioulas, Charalampos Tsamakis, Nikolaos Charalampakis, Christoph Mueller, Donna Arya, Paul Zarogoulidis, Demetrios Spandidos, Meletios Dimopoulos, Charalabos Papageorgiou, Emmanouil Rizos
Institutions: National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Alexandra Hospital, Laiko General Hospital of Athens, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Vaudois, Karolinska University Hospital, South Tyneside and Sunderland NHS Foundation Trust, Mitera Hospital, Hygeia Hospital, Luton and Dunstable University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, Luton and Dunstable Hospital, Metaxa Hospital, King's College London, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, AHEPA University Hospital, University of Crete, Eginition Hospital
Language: English
Subfield: Oncology
Field: Medicine
Domain: Health Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W3023701646