Risks of COVID-19 for surgical cancer patients: The importance of the informed consent process

Alberto Julius Alves Wainstein^{1

2

3}, Ana Paula Drummond-Lage³, Reitan Ribeiro^{1

4}, Héber Salvador de Castro Ribeiro^{1

5}, Rodrigo Nascimento Pinheiro^{1

6}, Glauco Baiocchi^{1

5}, Paulo Henrique de Sousa Fernandes^{1

7}, Marciano Anghinoni¹, Gustavo Andreazza Laporte^{1

8}, Manoel Jesus Coelho Junior^{1

9}, Vinicius Negri Dall'Inha¹, Alexandre Ferreira Oliveira^{1

10}

Affiliations

¹ Sociedade Brasileira de Cirurgia Oncológica, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
² Rede Mater Dei de Saúde, Surgical Oncology, Belo Horizonte, Brazil.
³ Faculdade Ciências Médicas de Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, Brazil.
⁴ Department of Surgical Oncology, Erasto Gaertner Hospital, Curitiba, Brazil.
⁵ Department of Surgical Oncology, AC Camargo Cancer Center, São Paulo, Brazil.
⁶ Department of Surgical Oncology, Hospital de Base do Distrito Federal, Brasília, Brazil.
⁷ School of Medicine, Universidade Federal de Uberlandia, Uberlândia, Brazil.
⁸ Department of Surgical Oncology, Santa Casa de Misericórdia de Porto Alegre, Porto Alegre, Brazil.
⁹ Department of Surgical Oncology, Oncology Control Center of Amazonas State, Manaus, Brazil.
¹⁰ Department of Surgical Oncology, Universidade Federal de Juiz de Fora, Juiz de Fora, Brazil.

Alberto Julius Alves Wainstein et al. J Surg Oncol. 2020 Sep.

. 2020 Sep;122(4):608-610.

doi: 10.1002/jso.26065. Epub 2020 Jun 20.

¹ Sociedade Brasileira de Cirurgia Oncológica, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
² Rede Mater Dei de Saúde, Surgical Oncology, Belo Horizonte, Brazil.
³ Faculdade Ciências Médicas de Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, Brazil.
⁴ Department of Surgical Oncology, Erasto Gaertner Hospital, Curitiba, Brazil.
⁵ Department of Surgical Oncology, AC Camargo Cancer Center, São Paulo, Brazil.
⁶ Department of Surgical Oncology, Hospital de Base do Distrito Federal, Brasília, Brazil.
⁷ School of Medicine, Universidade Federal de Uberlandia, Uberlândia, Brazil.
⁸ Department of Surgical Oncology, Santa Casa de Misericórdia de Porto Alegre, Porto Alegre, Brazil.
⁹ Department of Surgical Oncology, Oncology Control Center of Amazonas State, Manaus, Brazil.
¹⁰ Department of Surgical Oncology, Universidade Federal de Juiz de Fora, Juiz de Fora, Brazil.

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Conflict of interest statement

The authors declare that there are no conflict of interests.

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