… -Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY In these unprecedented times of COVID-19, surgical
oncologists are being forced to consider triage and rationing of cancer surgery cases, for a …

… Resource comparison for outcomes afforded by cancer surgery and COVID-19 … of cancer
surgery delay with hospital care for patients with community-acquired COVID-19 infection. …

… risk of cancer patients contracting the coronavirus and avoiding surgical complications …
Cancer care, emergency surgery and COVID-19 planning need to be balanced. Agreed …

… cancer progression in the absence of surgical intervention, versus the increased risk of
exposure to COVID-19 … incidence of COVID-19 in patients following elective cancer surgery in a …

… COVID-19 patients in hospitals resulting in massive diversion of critical hospital resources,
caring for non COVID-19 patient population with medical and surgical … elective surgical cases. …

… At present, it is not possible to establish with certainty if cancer patients are at higher risk
of contracting COVID-19 or experiencing severe outcomes. According to the Italian National …

… The aims of this study were to provide data on the safety of head and neck cancer surgery
currently being undertaken during the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic. …

… In this comprehensive study involving >4 million cancer patients, we found that most
cancer surgeries can be safely delayed beyond current wait time for at least 4 weeks …

… services to provide COVID-19–free surgical pathways for elective cancer surgery needs to
be … complications after elective cancer operations in COVID-19–free surgical pathways and …

… If it becomes necessary to delay surgery for colon cancer during future waves of COVID-19
our results suggest that it should be done with extreme caution and rescheduled for the …