How COVID-19 pandemic affected cancer progression: Three different scenarios evidenced by PET imaging.
Hell J Nucl Med
; 23(3): 349-353, 2020.
Article
in English
| MEDLINE | ID: covidwho-971865
ABSTRACT
COVID-19 pandemic is having a strong impact on healthcare providers around the world, by refocusing and reducing non-essential medical activities. Nuclear medicine departments among others, have been reorganizing and reprioritizing diagnostic and theragnostic procedures. This reorganizing had a negative impact on the supply of positron emission tomography (PET) services to oncologic patients, whose health was affected. We herein present the PET findings in three different cancer scenarios in which disease course was dramatically affected by the COVID-19 outbreak.
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International databases
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MEDLINE
Main subject:
Positron-Emission Tomography
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COVID-19
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Neoplasms
Type of study:
Observational study
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Prognostic study
Limits:
Humans
Language:
English
Journal:
Hell J Nucl Med
Journal subject:
Nuclear Medicine
Year:
2020
Document Type:
Article
Affiliation country:
S002449912213
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