Taking care of older patients with cancer in the context of COVID-19 pandemic

Affiliations

¹ Department of Medical Oncology, Institut Claudius Regaud, Institut Universitaire du Cancer Toulouse - Oncopole, Toulouse, France.
² Geriatrics Unit, Lyon Sud University Hospital, Hospices Civils de Lyon and Lyon University, Pierre-Bénite, France.
³ Médecine Aiguë Gériatrique, Université de Nantes, Vice-Présidente de la Société Francophone d'Oncogériatrie, CHU Nantes, Saint Herblain, France.
⁴ Geriatric Coordination Unit for Geriatric Oncology, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Nice, Nice, France.
⁵ Pôle d'Oncologie Médicale, Groupe Hospitalier Public du Sud de l'Oise, Creil, France.
⁶ Department of Medical Oncology, Centre Georges-Francois Leclerc, Dijon, France.
⁷ Service de Médecine Gériatrique du Pr Teillet AP-HP, Université Paris Saclay Hôpitaux Antoine-Béclère, Boulogne-Billancourt, France.
⁸ Department of Medical Oncology, Institut Curie, Saint-Cloud, France.
⁹ Geriatric Oncology Unit, APHP, Hôpital Européen Georges Pompidou, Paris, France; Clinical Epidemiology and Ageing Unit, Université Paris-Est, Créteil, France.
¹⁰ Department of Medical Oncology, Institut Bergonié, Université de Bordeaux, Inserm U1218, 33076 Bordeaux Cedex, France. Electronic address: p.soubeyran@bordeaux.unicancer.fr.

Comment

Loïc Mourey et al. Lancet Oncol. 2020 May.

. 2020 May;21(5):e236.

doi: 10.1016/S1470-2045(20)30229-1. Epub 2020 Apr 14.

¹ Department of Medical Oncology, Institut Claudius Regaud, Institut Universitaire du Cancer Toulouse - Oncopole, Toulouse, France.
² Geriatrics Unit, Lyon Sud University Hospital, Hospices Civils de Lyon and Lyon University, Pierre-Bénite, France.
³ Médecine Aiguë Gériatrique, Université de Nantes, Vice-Présidente de la Société Francophone d'Oncogériatrie, CHU Nantes, Saint Herblain, France.
⁴ Geriatric Coordination Unit for Geriatric Oncology, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Nice, Nice, France.
⁵ Pôle d'Oncologie Médicale, Groupe Hospitalier Public du Sud de l'Oise, Creil, France.
⁶ Department of Medical Oncology, Centre Georges-Francois Leclerc, Dijon, France.
⁷ Service de Médecine Gériatrique du Pr Teillet AP-HP, Université Paris Saclay Hôpitaux Antoine-Béclère, Boulogne-Billancourt, France.
⁸ Department of Medical Oncology, Institut Curie, Saint-Cloud, France.
⁹ Geriatric Oncology Unit, APHP, Hôpital Européen Georges Pompidou, Paris, France; Clinical Epidemiology and Ageing Unit, Université Paris-Est, Créteil, France.
¹⁰ Department of Medical Oncology, Institut Bergonié, Université de Bordeaux, Inserm U1218, 33076 Bordeaux Cedex, France. Electronic address: p.soubeyran@bordeaux.unicancer.fr.

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The official French guidelines to protect patients with cancer against SARS-CoV-2 infection.
You B, Ravaud A, Canivet A, Ganem G, Giraud P, Guimbaud R, Kaluzinski L, Krakowski I, Mayeur D, Grellety T, Lotz JP. You B, et al. Lancet Oncol. 2020 May;21(5):619-621. doi: 10.1016/S1470-2045(20)30204-7. Epub 2020 Mar 25. Lancet Oncol. 2020. PMID: 32220659 Free PMC article. No abstract available.

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