A Practical Approach to the Management of Cancer Patients During the Novel Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID‐19) Pandemic: An International Collaborative Group

• Published in: The oncologist (Dayton, Ohio) Vol. 25; no. 6; pp. e936 - e945
• Main Authors: Al‐Shamsi, Humaid O., Alhazzani, Waleed, Alhuraiji, Ahmad, Coomes, Eric A., Chemaly, Roy F., Almuhanna, Meshari, Wolff, Robert A., Ibrahim, Nuhad K., Chua, Melvin L.K., Hotte, Sebastien J., Meyers, Brandon M., Elfiki, Tarek, Curigliano, Giuseppe, Eng, Cathy, Grothey, Axel, Xie, Conghua
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Hoboken, USA John Wiley & Sons, Inc 01.06.2020
• Subjects: Betacoronavirus - isolation & purification; Betacoronavirus - pathogenicity; Coronavirus; Coronavirus Infections - epidemiology; Coronavirus Infections - prevention & control; Coronavirus Infections - transmission; Coronavirus Infections - virology; COVID-19; Global Health and Cancer; Hand Hygiene - organization & administration; Hand Hygiene - trends; Humans; Infection Control - organization & administration; Infection Control - trends; Influenza; International Cooperation; Intersectoral Collaboration; Medical Oncology - economics; Medical Oncology - organization & administration; Medical Oncology - standards; Medical Oncology - trends; Neoplasm; Neoplasms - therapy; Pandemic; Pandemics - prevention & control; Patient Care - economics; Patient Care - standards; Patient Care - trends; Patient Education as Topic; Pneumonia, Viral - epidemiology; Pneumonia, Viral - prevention & control; Pneumonia, Viral - transmission; Pneumonia, Viral - virology; Resource Allocation - economics; Resource Allocation - organization & administration; Resource Allocation - standards; Resource Allocation - trends; SARS-CoV-2; Telemedicine - economics; Telemedicine - organization & administration; Telemedicine - standards; Telemedicine - trends; World Health Organization; COVID-19; Neoplasm; Pandemic; SARS-CoV-2; Coronavirus; Influenza

The outbreak of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID‐19) has rapidly spread globally since being identified as a public health emergency of major international concern and has now been declared a pandemic by the World Health Organization (WHO). In December 2019, an outbreak of atypical pneumonia, known a...