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Cancer care in the time of COVID-19.

Talha Khan Burki
- 23 Mar 2020 - 
- Vol. 21, Iss: 5, pp 628-628
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This article is published in Lancet Oncology.The article was published on 2020-03-23 and is currently open access. It has received 71 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Cancer.

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Cancer patients and research during COVID-19 pandemic: A systematic review of current evidence.

TL;DR: The challenges of cancer management in the era of SARS-CoV-2 are exposed, the epidemiological, clinical, pathological and radiological characteristics of the disease in cancer patients and its outcomes on this population are exposed and strategies followed with review of national and international guidelines are focused on.
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Cross-Country Comparisons of Covid-19: Policy, Politics and the Price of Life.

TL;DR: The epidemiological models show that across 8 countries a further week long delay in imposing lockdown would likely have cost more than half a million lives, and those countries which acted more promptly saved substantially more lives than those that delayed.
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Association of hypertension, diabetes, stroke, cancer, kidney disease, and high-cholesterol with COVID-19 disease severity and fatality: A systematic review.

TL;DR: It was observed that diabetes, hypertension, and cholesterol levels possess an apparent relation to COVID-19 severity, and other comorbidities, such as cancer, kidney disease, and stroke must be further evaluated to determine a strong relationship to the virus.
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COVID-19 in cancer patients: risk, clinical features, and management.

TL;DR: The goal of this review is to stimulate research to better understand the biological impact and prognoses of COVID-19 infections in cancer patients, thus facilitating improvement of the clinical management of these patients.
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The impact of novel coronavirus COVID-19 on noncommunicable disease patients and health systems: a review.

TL;DR: This review summarizes major COVID‐19‐related considerations for NCD patients and their care providers, focusing on cardiovascular, pulmonary, renal, haematologic, oncologic, traumatic, obstetric/gynaecologic, operative, psychiatric, rheumatologic/immunologic, neurologic, gastrointestinal, ophthalmologic and endocrine disorders.
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