Introduction The COVID-19 pandemic caused by the novel coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 has
put an unprecedented burden on global healthcare, including detrimental implications for …

Background The COVID-19 pandemic has resulted in a significant decrease in the number
of elective cancer operations performed. Cancer patients are felt to be a high-risk group for …

PURPOSE As cancer surgery restarts after the first COVID-19 wave, health care providers
urgently require data to determine where elective surgery is best performed. This study …

Background: increased pressure on healthcare systems and possible risk of nosocomial
COVID-19 infection during pandemic urged many guidelines to severely restrict the number …

Purpose: As cancer surgery restarts after the first COVID-19 wave, health care providers
urgently require data to determine where elective surgery is best performed. This study …

The COVID-19 pandemic has placed unprecedented pressure on healthcare services.
Deprioritisation of nonemergency clinical services and growing concerns of adverse …

Abstract Background To provide for Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) healthcare
capacity,(surgical oncology) guidelines were established, forcing to alter the timing of …

Concerns have arisen about cancer surgery during the COVID-19 pandemic because of the
suspected high risk of infection and poorer surgical outcomes1, 2. As a result, several …

Abstract Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) was declared a pandemic by the World
Health Organization on March 11, 2020. By mid-March, London had emerged as the …

Objective: To determine the risk of acquiring perioperative COVID-19 infection in previously
COVID-19 negative patients. Summary of Background Data: During the initial peak of the …