Palliative Care in Breast Cancer During the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Scoping Review.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The COVID-19 pandemic has harmed the provision of palliative care (PC) services for women with breast cancer due to all the restrictions that came along with the virus.

Objective

To map the available evidence on the situation of PC in breast cancer during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Methods

A scoping review was carried out based on the methodology proposed by the Joanna Briggs Institute. The search was conducted in nine databases, one electronic repository, and one library, using controlled vocabularies.

Results

Twenty-nine articles and seven documents were included. The majority (11.4% each) were published in the United Kingdom, Italy, and the United States, 38.9% addressed palliative radiotherapy (RT), and 47.2% consisted of recommendations. From the co

SUBMITTER: Velasco Yanez R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9127630 | biostudies-literature | 2022 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature