The patient’s pathway for breast cancer in the COVID‐19 era: An Italian single‐center experience

COVID‐19 has been declared a pandemic by the World Health Organization. As of April 1, 2020, Italy was the country with the second highest number of cases in the world. The spread of COVID‐19 has required a rapid reorganization of health service delivery in face of the pandemic. Breast cancer units...

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Published inThe breast journal Vol. 26; no. 8; pp. 1589 - 1592
Main Authors Casella, Donato, Fusario, Daniele, Cassetti, Dario, Miccoli, Simone, Pesce, Anna Lisa, Bernini, Andrea, Marcasciano, Marco, Lo Torto, Federico, Neri, Alessandro
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published United States Wiley Subscription Services, Inc 01.08.2020
John Wiley and Sons Inc
Subjects
Betacoronavirus
Breast cancer
Breast Neoplasms - surgery
Coronavirus Infections - epidemiology
COVID-19
Female
Humans
multi‐disciplinary team
Pandemics
Patient Care Team
patient's pathway
Pneumonia, Viral - epidemiology
SARS-CoV-2
Short Communication
COVID-19
breast cancer
patient's pathway
multi-disciplinary team
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Summary:COVID‐19 has been declared a pandemic by the World Health Organization. As of April 1, 2020, Italy was the country with the second highest number of cases in the world. The spread of COVID‐19 has required a rapid reorganization of health service delivery in face of the pandemic. Breast cancer units have reprioritized their workload to guarantee the health of oncologic patients at the highest risk and regular screening activities. However, at the end of the pandemic emergency, many benign and reconstructive cases will return to our attention and their surgical treatment will be necessary as soon as possible.
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ISSN:1075-122X
1524-4741
DOI:10.1111/tbj.13958