DOTmed September 18, 2020
Cancellations and delays in cancer treatment due to COVID-19 have created huge backlogs for oncologists, who have increasingly experienced high levels of burnout since the start of the pandemic.
These claims were made in a number of independent studies presented this month at the ESMO Virtual Congress 2020, where their authors each discussed the pressures the outbreak has placed on healthcare systems worldwide.
“There is a risk that the diagnosis of new cancer cases will be delayed and that more patients will be diagnosed at a later stage of their disease,” Dr. Guy Jerusalem, an author of one of the studies who works at Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Sart Tilman in Belgium, said in a statement.
Jerusalem and his colleagues questioned...
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