Management of cancer patients during COVID-19 pandemic at developing countries

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World J Clin Cases. Aug 26, 2020; 8(16): 3390-3404
Published online Aug 26, 2020. doi: 10.12998/wjcc.v8.i16.3390

Management of cancer patients during COVID-19 pandemic at developing countries

Jaime González-Montero, Guillermo Valenzuela, Mónica Ahumada, Olga Barajas, Luis Villanueva

Jaime González-Montero, Guillermo Valenzuela, Mónica Ahumada, Olga Barajas, Basic and Clinical Oncology Department, Faculty of Medicine, University of Chile, Santiago 70058, Chile

Mónica Ahumada, Basic and Clinical Oncology Department, Hospital Clinico Universidad de Chile and Clínica Dávila, Chile

Olga Barajas, Basic and Clinical Oncology Department, Hospital Clinico Universidad de Chile and Fundación Arturo López-Pérez, Chile

Luis Villanueva, Oncology Department, Hospital Clínico Universidad de Chile and Fundación Arturo López-Perez, Chile

Author contributions: González-Montero J and Valenzuela G wrote the paper; Ahumada M, Barajas O and Villanueva L contributed with collected data and references.

Conflict-of-interest statement: No potential conflicts of interest.

Open-Access: This article is an open-access article that was selected by an in-house editor and fully peer-reviewed by external reviewers. It is distributed in accordance with the Creative Commons Attribution NonCommercial (CC BY-NC 4.0) license, which permits others to distribute, remix, adapt, build upon this work non-commercially, and license their derivative works on different terms, provided the original work is properly cited and the use is non-commercial. See: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/

Corresponding author: Jaime González-Montero, MD, PhD, Assistant Professor, Doctor, Basic and Clinical Oncology Department, Faculty of Medicine, University of Chile, Independencia 1027, Santiago 70058, Chile. jagonzalez@ug.uchile.cl

Received: May 12, 2020
Peer-review started: May 12, 2020
First decision: August 8, 2020
Revised: August 9, 2020
Accepted: August 12, 2020
Article in press: August 12, 2020
Published online: August 26, 2020
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Core Tip

Core tip: Pandemics such as coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) create new challenges in care of cancer patients, what makes necessary adapt the resources to be used, and consider the risk-benefit balance of cancer therapies. This review establishes a perspective on how COVID-19 pandemic affect cancer patients, and a proposal for managing these patients at developing countries.