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cord-270396-3bcnnyfq	Karacin, Cengiz	How does COVID-19 fear and anxiety affect chemotherapy adherence in patients with cancer	2020-07-17		.txt	text/plain	3605	177	57	Aim: To investigate how COVID-19 fear and anxiety (COV-FA) affects chemotherapy adherence in patients with cancer. Data on patients' age, sex, comorbidities, history of smoking, marital status, number of children, educational background, place of residence and household, cancer type, disease stage, CT regimen and date of CT postponement were obtained from the hospital records. In the present study, it was seen that the CT postponement rate increased significantly following the first COVID-19 case in Turkey and COV-FA was identified as the third most frequent reason for CT postponement. In the present study, the median TCBT of the patients who postponed CT due to COV-FA was 47 days (range . • We aimed to investigate how COVID-19 fear and anxiety (COV-FA) affects chemotherapy (CT) adherence in patients receiving active CT for cancer, and to identify the characteristics of patients who postponed their CT due to COV-FA, as well as the time to come back to treatment (TCBT) and the factors affecting TCBT in these patients.	./cache/cord-270396-3bcnnyfq.txt	./txt/cord-270396-3bcnnyfq.txt