Uncertainty upon uncertainty: supportive Care for Cancer and COVID-19
Ce dossier présente un ensemble d'articles concernant la prise en charge des cancers durant la crise sanitaire liée au COVID-19
Controlling the COVID-19 pandemic is having a significant negative impact on the lives of people with cancer. Despite some recent data on increased infection rates of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) in people with cancer and increased mortality in people with COVID-19 and cancer (1), we struggle to apply these data in real-world oncology practice. Nonetheless, this illness is about people and we have recently been warned by the United Nations of a global mental health crisis due to COVID-19 (2). People with cancer are already uncertain about their future, which is now exacerbated by uncertainty over the risk of contracting the infection and not being able to receive the recommended cancer treatment (3); COVID-19 is also likely to have adversely impacted their social support network including family members, spouses, children and friends. Pandemics thrive on social inequalities and for disadvantaged people with cancer, with or without COVID-19, huge social, psychological and physical consequences may persist for many months or maybe years.(...)
Supportive Care in Cancer , éditorial en libre accès, 2019