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Review
. 2020 Sep;122(4):579-593.
doi: 10.1002/jso.26110. Epub 2020 Jul 15.

Discordance of COVID-19 guidelines for patients with cancer: A systematic review

Pankaj Kumar Garg  1 , Pallvi Kaul  1 , Deepti Choudhary  2 , Kiran Kalyan Turaga  3 , Mahendra Pal Singh  1 , Ajeet Ramamani Tiwari  1 , Vipin Arora  4 , Nishant Agrawal  5 , Beat Rau  6 , Sai Yendamuri  7
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Review

Discordance of COVID-19 guidelines for patients with cancer: A systematic review

Pankaj Kumar Garg et al. J Surg Oncol. 2020 Sep.

Abstract

This review was aimed to systematically evaluate the available literature on the impact of COVID-19 on cancer care and to critically analyze the diagnostic and therapeutic strategies suggested by various healthcare providers, societies, and institutions. Majority guidelines for various types of cancers favored a delay in treatment or a nonsurgical approach wherever feasible. These guidelines are based on a low level of evidence and have significant discordance for the role and timing of surgery, especially in early tumors.

Keywords: COVID-19; SARS-CoV-2; cancer; coronavirus; pandemic.

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Conflict of interest statement

The authors declare that there are no conflict of interests.

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Flowchart of PRISMA [Color figure can be viewed at wileyonlinelibrary.com]
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Bar‐charts depicting the (A) number of publications in various domains of cancer and (B) distribution of publications as per the type of solid organ malignancy [Color figure can be viewed at wileyonlinelibrary.com]
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