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cord-350679-69lv4wbz	Shinde, Rajesh S.	To Do or Not to Do?—A Review of Cancer Surgery Triage Guidelines in COVID-19 Pandemic	2020-05-11		.txt	text/plain	3474	176	44	In the absence of actual data on cancer surgery care during this pandemic, clinical decisions should be based on careful consideration of disease-related and patient-related factors. As cancer surgeries involve significant healthcare resources in terms of infrastructure, intensive care unit beds, blood products and manpower, surgical oncologists face a dilemma regarding the triage of surgical patients during this period of uncertainty. A particular concern for a cancer surgeon is to weigh the risk of deferring cancer surgery versus the risk of COVID-19 exposure and infection to patients as well as health care providers. Smoking, one of the commonest risk factors in lung cancer, has not been independently shown to affect the mortality in SARS-CoV-2 patient; however, pre-existing chronic obstructive lung disease is associated with increased mortality [4] . Clinical management of lung cancer patients during the outbreak of 2019 novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19)	./cache/cord-350679-69lv4wbz.txt	./txt/cord-350679-69lv4wbz.txt