Cancer care during the COVID-19 pandemic: a perspective from Saudi Arabia

doi:10.3332/ecancer.2020.1076

. 2020 Jul 17:14:1076.

doi: 10.3332/ecancer.2020.1076. eCollection 2020.

Cancer care during the COVID-19 pandemic: a perspective from Saudi Arabia

Saleh A Alessy^{1

2

3}, Elizabeth A Davies¹, Abdul-Rahman Jazieh^{4

5}

Affiliations

¹ Cancer Epidemiology, Population and Global Health, Comprehensive Cancer Centre, Faculty of Life Sciences & Medicine, King's College London, UK.
² Public Health Department, College of Health Sciences, Saudi Electronic University, Riyadh, 11426, Saudi Arabia.
³ https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4588-7410.
⁴ Department of Oncology, King Saud bin Abdulaziz University for Health Sciences, Riyadh, 11426, Saudi Arabia.
⁵ King Abdullah International Medical Research Center, Ministry of National Guard Health Affairs, Riyadh, 11426, Saudi Arabia.

PMID: 32863870
PMCID: PMC7434509
DOI: 10.3332/ecancer.2020.1076

Cancer care during the COVID-19 pandemic: a perspective from Saudi Arabia

Saleh A Alessy et al. Ecancermedicalscience. 2020.

. 2020 Jul 17:14:1076.

doi: 10.3332/ecancer.2020.1076. eCollection 2020.

Authors

Saleh A Alessy^{1

2

3}, Elizabeth A Davies¹, Abdul-Rahman Jazieh^{4

5}

Affiliations

¹ Cancer Epidemiology, Population and Global Health, Comprehensive Cancer Centre, Faculty of Life Sciences & Medicine, King's College London, UK.
² Public Health Department, College of Health Sciences, Saudi Electronic University, Riyadh, 11426, Saudi Arabia.
³ https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4588-7410.
⁴ Department of Oncology, King Saud bin Abdulaziz University for Health Sciences, Riyadh, 11426, Saudi Arabia.
⁵ King Abdullah International Medical Research Center, Ministry of National Guard Health Affairs, Riyadh, 11426, Saudi Arabia.

PMID: 32863870
PMCID: PMC7434509
DOI: 10.3332/ecancer.2020.1076

Abstract

The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic continues to disrupt many healthcare settings worldwide including cancer care. COVID-19 has been associated with worse outcomes amongst cancer patients. Saudi Arabia has experienced several Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV) outbreaks that affected the continuity of cancer care. In this paper, we describe how Saudi Arabia responded to COVID-19, how cancer care was re-restructured during this pandemic and how the recent MERS-CoV experience may have improved the Saudi response to COVID-19.

Keywords: COVID-19; Saudi Arabia; cancer; care.

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The authors declare that they have no conflicts of interest

Figures

Figure 1.. COVID-19 statistics for Saudi Arabia. These data are based on the daily cases announced by the Ministry of Health (last updated on the 1 June 2020). Data source: [11], last accessed on the 2 June 2020; Abbreviation: N = number.

Figure 2.. Daily reported COVID-19 cases in Saudi Arabia. These data are based on the daily cases announced by the Ministry of Health (last updated on the 1 June 2020). Data source: [11], last accessed on 2 June 2020.

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