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. 2022;17(1):11-14.
doi: 10.2174/1574887116666211028145848.

COVID-19 Vaccinations: Summary Guidance for Cancer Patients in 28 Languages: Breaking Barriers to Cancer Patient Information

Davide Mauri  1 , Konstantinos Kamposioras  2 , Lampriani Tsali  3 , Mario Dambrosio  4 , Berardino De Bari  5 , Nadia Hindi  6 , Carl Salembier  7 , Joanna Nixon  8 , Tzachanis Dimitrios  9 , Flippo Alongi  10 , Hassan Hameed  11 , Antonios Valachis  12 , Konstantinos Papadimitriou  13 , Stefanie Corradini  14 , Lazar Popovic  15 , Jindrich Kopecky  16 , Andres Rodriguez  17 , Katarina Antunac  18 , Junlin Yi  19 , Jozsef Lovey  20 , Primoz Strojan  21 , Haytham Saraireh  22 , Ranveig Røtterud  23 , Marzanna Chojnacka  24 , Santa Cruz Olalla  25 , Natalia Chilingirova  26 , Ramon Andrade De Mello  27   28 , Giovanna Araujo Amaral  29 , Farsid Arbabi  30 , Radu Vidra  31 , Erjeta Rapushi  32 , Dan Takeuchi  33 , Chirstos Christopoulos  34 , Irina Ivanova  35 , Igor Djan  36 , Branka Petricevic  37 , Francesco Cellini  38 , Iglika Mihaylova  39 , Natalija Dedic Plavetic  40 , Cvetka Grašič Kuhar  41 , Elena Takeuchi  42 , Pantelis Kountourakis  43 , Panagiotis Ntellas  1 , Ioanna Gazouli  1 , Stefania Gkoura  1 , Salih Yuce  44 , Özlem Er  45 , Chait Yasmina  46 , Gireesh Kumaran  47 , Orges Spahiu  48 , Aasim Yusuf  49 , Paulina Gono  50 , Kathi Apostolidis  51 , Maria Tolia  52
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COVID-19 Vaccinations: Summary Guidance for Cancer Patients in 28 Languages: Breaking Barriers to Cancer Patient Information

Davide Mauri et al. Rev Recent Clin Trials. 2022.

Abstract

Background: Covid-19 vaccination has started in the majority of the countries at the global level. Cancer patients are at high risk for infection, serious illness, and death from COVID-19 and need vaccination guidance and support. Guidance availability in the English language only is a major limit for recommendations' delivery and their application in the world's population and generates information inequalities across the different populations.

Methods: Most of the available COVID-19 vaccination guidance for cancer patients was screened and scrutinized by the European Cancer Patients Coalition (ECPC) and an international oncology panel of 52 physicians from 33 countries.

Results: A summary guidance was developed and provided in 28 languages in order to reach more than 70 percent of the global population.

Conclusion: Language barrier and e-guidance availability in the native language are the most important barriers when communicating with patients. E-guidance availability in various native languages should be considered a major priority by international medical and health organizations that are communicating with patients at the global level.

Keywords: Population; cancer patients; global; guidance; languages; vaccination.

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Demographics of the 23 most spoken languages as a native tongue (with at least fifty million first language speakers).
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    1. “A world of languages” Modified with permission from Alberto Lucas Lopez. Available from: https://www.scmp.com/infographics/article/1810040/infographic-world-lang....

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