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cord-270382-z966wufy	Sultania, Mahesh	Oral Cancer Surgery and COVID pandemic – Metronomic Therapy shows a promising role while awaiting surgery	2020-05-22		.txt	text/plain	1056	54	46	They suggest neoadjuvant chemotherapy/oral metronomic therapy in locally advanced oral cancers or to defer surgery until progression [4] Dr. Varghese explains about the situation in the state of Kerala in India and the clearance by state government to perform RT PCR for Covid19 among all patients undergoing cancer surgeries, which is yet not a practice in other parts of India [5] . We are facing many challenges like resource constraints, majority of the population being from low socioeconomic status without health insurance, patients present in locally advanced stage and waiting list of surgery is 2 to 3 months with a risk of tumor progression and no COVID testing for surgical patients if not from containment zone. Metronomic therapy is one of the options for patient with locally advanced tumor who have been planned for elective oral cancer surgery which is easily deliverable, minimally toxic, home based and cost effective [6] .	./cache/cord-270382-z966wufy.txt	./txt/cord-270382-z966wufy.txt