Global Effect of COVID-19 Pandemic on Cancer Patients and its Treatment: A Systematic Review.

ABSTRACT:

Background

At a global level, the COVID-19 disease outbreak has had a major impact on health services and has induced disruption in routine care of health institutions, exposing cancer patients to severe risks. To provide uninterrupted tumor treatment throughout a pandemic lockdown is a major obstacle. Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) and its causative virus, SARS-CoV-2, stance considerable challenges for the management of oncology patients. COVID-19 presents particularly severe respiratory and systemic infection in aging and immunosuppressed individuals, including patients with cancer.

Objective

In the present review, we focused on emergent evidence from cancer sufferers that have been contaminated with COVID-19 and cancer patients who were at higher risk of severe COVID-19,

SUBMITTER: Ali M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9035683 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature