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Comment
. 2020 Jul;25(7):e1131.
doi: 10.1634/theoncologist.2020-0230. Epub 2020 Apr 28.

Caring for Patients with Advanced Stage Cancer at the Time of COVID-19

Antonella Brunello  1 , Vittorina Zagonel  1
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Caring for Patients with Advanced Stage Cancer at the Time of COVID-19

Antonella Brunello et al. Oncologist. 2020 Jul.

Abstract

This letter to the editor alerts oncologists to the importance of accurately defining benefit‐risk ratio during the COVID‐19 pandemic for patients with advanced‐stage cancer treated with chemotherapy after failure of first‐line and second‐line therapy.

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