Diagnosis and locoregional treatment of patients with breast cancer during the COVID-19 pandemic Diagnostico y tratamiento locorregional de las pacientes con cancer de mama durante la pandemia de la COVID-19

ABSTRACT: We are facing a pandemic that is going to affect a significant part of the population. At the end of April in the world there are about 3,000,000 cases, with 205,000 deaths and 860,000 patients recovered. The response to this pandemic has in many cases led to a significant change in the daily work of caring for cancer patients, the good results of which depend largely on time-adjusted protocols and multidisciplinary treatments. We present a review of local, surgical and radiotherapy treatment together with authors’ recommendations made from personal experience on ways to act in the diagnosis and surgical treatment of breast cancer during the COVID-19 pandemic. The multidisciplinary Breast Committees must continue to meet weekly in videoconference format. All surgical actions and irradiatio

SUBMITTER: Pardo R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7198217 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature