Caring for cancer patients in the Covid pandemic: choosing between the devil and deep sea.
Mainak ChakrabortyManoj PandeyPublished in: World journal of surgical oncology (2020)
The Covid 2019 pandemic places cancer patients in a very difficult situation wherein if they seek treatment, they are exposing themselves to a risk of developing CoV2 infection and if they do not, the probability of dying without treatment increases. Hence, for them it is a choice between the devil and deep sea, and it is for the healthcare providers to triage patients and treat who cannot wait even though the data from the carefully selected cohort of patients show no increase in mortality or morbidity from treatment during Covid.
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