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. 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 Davies  1 , Abdul-Rahman Jazieh  4   5
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Cancer care during the COVID-19 pandemic: a perspective from Saudi Arabia

Saleh A Alessy et al. Ecancermedicalscience. .

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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Conflict of interest statement

The authors declare that they have no conflicts of interest

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Figure 1.
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.
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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