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Objective: This review aims to see to what extent the practice of telemedicine in the COVID-19 pandemic assists in the care of patients in the specialty of oncology. Methods: The review was carried out through an electronic search of articles related to telemedicine and oncology in databases such as: Web of Science, Scielo and Pubmed. The search terms were: Telemedicine, COVID-19 and oncology. For this review, our inclusion criteria are based on selecting articles published with research results from 2019 to the present, no language, type, or study design restrictions were applied, and our exclusion criteria were on those articles that did not state an author. o Digital Object Identifier System (DOI), with the exception of World Health Organization (WHO) publications. Results: Of the 10 articles reviewed, 2 articles without DOI were discarded, leaving only 8 articles for this bibliographic review. Conclusion: Telemedicine today has advantages such as preventing the spread of COVID-19, reducing the burden of medical care, and maintaining adequate patient care. We also encountered several limitations and obstacles, including organizational, technological, and patient-related barriers. Since oncology requires a multidisciplinary approach, telemedicine will play a key role in improving patient-centered cancer care in the future. leaving only 8 articles for this bibliographic review. Conclusion: Telemedicine today has advantages such as preventing the spread of COVID-19, reducing the burden of medical care, and maintaining adequate patient care. We also encountered several limitations and obstacles, including organizational, technological, and patient-related barriers. Since oncology requires a multidisciplinary approach, telemedicine will play a key role in improving patient-centered cancer care in the future. leaving only 8 articles for this bibliographic review. Conclusion: Telemedicine today has advantages such as preventing the spread of COVID-19, reducing the burden of medical care, and maintaining adequate patient care. We also encountered several limitations and obstacles, including organizational, technological, and patient-related barriers. Since oncology requires a multidisciplinary approach, telemedicine will play a key role in improving patient-centered cancer care in the future. We also encountered several limitations and obstacles, including organizational, technological, and patient-related barriers. Since oncology requires a multidisciplinary approach, telemedicine will play a key role in improving patient-centered cancer care in the future. We also encountered several limitations and obstacles, including organizational, technological, and patient-related barriers. Since oncology requires a multidisciplinary approach, telemedicine will play a key role in improving patient-centered cancer care in the future.
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During the COVID-19 pandemic, there have been important behavioral, clinical and government interventions to mitigate and prevent the spread of the virus in the popu-lation. However, there is no evidence of how these interventions, including the travel restrictions, affect the spread of COVID-19 in China and other countries. The objective of this research is to describe the main epidemiological characteristics of COVID-19 through the analysis of the main measures established. The sample included 40 scientific articles related to the pandemic and virus, considering relevant information regar-ding the behavior, symptomatology, epidemiology, treatment and methods of mitigation globally as well as a plan of control measures proposed in Peru to mitigate the spread of COVID-19 and to be prepared for future pandemics. © 2021, Universidad Nacional de Colombia. All rights reserved.