Optimizing the Management of Cancer Patients Treated With Systemic Therapies During the COVID-19 Pandemic: The New Role of PCR and CT Scan

Alessandro A Viansone; Samy Ammari; Laurent Dercle; Monica Arnedos

doi:10.3389/fonc.2021.560585

Optimizing the Management of Cancer Patients Treated With Systemic Therapies During the COVID-19 Pandemic: The New Role of PCR and CT Scan

Front Oncol. 2021 May 28:11:560585. doi: 10.3389/fonc.2021.560585. eCollection 2021.

Authors

Alessandro A Viansone^{1

2}, Samy Ammari³, Laurent Dercle⁴, Monica Arnedos¹

Affiliations

¹ Breast Unit, Department of Medicine, Gustave Roussy Cancer Campus, Villejuif, France.
² Breast Unit-Oncology Unit, Department of Medicine, University Hospital of Parma, Parma, Italy.
³ Radiology Department, Gustave Roussy Cancer Campus, Villejuif, France.
⁴ Radiology Department, Columbia University Medical Center New York Presbyterian Hospital, New York, NY, United States.

Abstract

In late 2019 and early 2020, the world witnessed the outbreak of the SARS-CoV-2 (also referred as COVID-19) in Wuhan, China. Its rapid expansion worldwide and its contagiousness rate have forced the activation of several measures to contain the pandemic, mostly through confinement and identification of infected patients and potential contacts by testing.

Keywords: COVID-19; CT-scan; PCR; cancer; oncology.

Publication types

Review