International Journal of Women's Health Care(IJWHC)
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Oncology during the dreadful COVID-19 pandemic: Indian perspective
Abstract
Vivek Thakur, Basanti Mazumdar, Dhruba Banik, Abhay Kumar, Avir Sarkar
As the emaciated healthcare system is attempting to break the tide of the novel coronavirus pandemic across the globe, the highest cost of this fight is being borne by the non-COVID patients across the third world countries. With the suspension of non-emergency services including OPDs and elective surgeries in majority of the hospitals across the country, routine treatments seemed to suffer the most. This temporary pause and containment were more detrimental to patients suffering from malignancy. Fate of thousands of patients seems to hang by a fine thread now.