id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt cord-276132-tv5y1eqc Ray, Upasana COVID-19: The Impact in Oncology Care 2020-10-23 .txt text/plain 5696 243 39 The COVID-19 pandemic has imposed a critical challenge to the current oncology care and practices including late diagnoses, delayed anti-cancer treatment, and static clinical trials. Delaying anti-cancer treatment in the ongoing pandemic cannot be recommended as a sensible choice to reduce the associated infection risk in patients. The American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) recommends that in cancer patients diagnosed with the infection, the immunosuppressive therapies should be withheld until the symptoms resolve like complete remission of fever without use of antipyretics along with a negative COVID-19 test. Nevertheless, contact limitation and physical distancing guidelines continue to be an important part of the cancer treatment strategies during the pandemic in order to protect the patients, health-care personnel and non-COVID-19 patients being treated in the same organization. A practical approach to the management of cancer patients during the novel coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic: an international collaborative group Clinical characteristics of COVID-19-infected cancer patients: a retrospective case study in three hospitals within Wuhan ./cache/cord-276132-tv5y1eqc.txt ./txt/cord-276132-tv5y1eqc.txt