Selected article for: "cardiovascular disease and clinical practice"

Author: Tartarone, Alfredo; Lerose, Rosa
Title: COVID-19 and cancer care: what do international guidelines say?
  • Cord-id: egsha2j7
  • Document date: 2020_8_7
  • ID: egsha2j7
    Snippet: Cancer patients are at particular risk from COVID-19 since they usually present multiple risk factors for this infection such as older age, immunosuppressed state, comorbidities (e.g., chronic lung disease, diabetes, cardiovascular diseases), need of frequent hospital admissions and visits. Therefore, in the COVID era, oncologists should carefully weigh risks/benefits when planning cancer therapies and follow-up appointments. Recently, several scientific associations developed specific guideline
    Document: Cancer patients are at particular risk from COVID-19 since they usually present multiple risk factors for this infection such as older age, immunosuppressed state, comorbidities (e.g., chronic lung disease, diabetes, cardiovascular diseases), need of frequent hospital admissions and visits. Therefore, in the COVID era, oncologists should carefully weigh risks/benefits when planning cancer therapies and follow-up appointments. Recently, several scientific associations developed specific guidelines or recommendations to help physicians in their clinical practice. This review focuses on main available guidelines/recommendations regarding the cancer patient management during the COVID-19 pandemic.

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