Should patients stop their radiotherapy or chemotherapy during the COVID-19 pandemic.

COVID-19 Radiotherapy chemotherapy

Journal

American journal of cancer research
ISSN: 2156-6976
Titre abrégé: Am J Cancer Res
Pays: United States
ID NLM: 101549944

Informations de publication

Date de publication:
2020
Historique:
received: 13 04 2020
accepted: 21 04 2020
entrez: 9 6 2020
pubmed: 9 6 2020
medline: 9 6 2020
Statut: epublish

Résumé

In the previous stage, there were too many patients with Corona virus disease 2019 (COVID-19) in Wuhan. Ordinary people, patients, even doctors, had a great sense of desperate. On the one hand, almost all doctors participated in the treatment of patients of COVID-19. On the other hand, the government restricted residents to go out, and the sick people were also afraid of being infected with COVID-19 when seeking medical treatment. Whether cancer patients seek medical treatment or not has become a contradiction for a long time. Our Viewpoint paper is to provide a positive signal to doctors and patients that patients with in the middle or advanced stage of cancer can receive radiotherapy and/or chemotherapy normally under protective measures.

Identifiants

pubmed: 32509394
pmc: PMC7269792

Types de publication

Journal Article

Langues

eng

Pagination

1518-1521

Informations de copyright

AJCR Copyright © 2020.

Déclaration de conflit d'intérêts

None.

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Auteurs

Bin Huang (B)

The First School of Clinical Medicine, Southern Medical University Guangzhou 510515, China.
Department of Thoracic Cardiovascular Surgery, General Hospital of Central Theater Command of The People's Liberation Army Wuhan, China.

Jian Zhu (J)

Department of Thoracic Cardiovascular Surgery, General Hospital of Central Theater Command of The People's Liberation Army Wuhan, China.

Xiong-Ying Wu (XY)

Department of Laryngology and Otology, General Hospital of Central Theater Command of The People's Liberation Army Wuhan, China.

Xu-Hui Gao (XH)

Department of Thoracic Cardiovascular Surgery, General Hospital of Central Theater Command of The People's Liberation Army Wuhan, China.

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