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Recommendations of the BSSO for patients with hepatobiliary cancers in the context of COVID-19 epidemic 2020

ABSTRACT Since the first report in Hubei, China, COVID-19 rapidly spread throughout the world and the World Health Organization (WHO) declared COVID-19 as global Pandemic on March 11, 2020. The first confirmed case in Brazil was on February 26, 2020. These outbreaks pose a greater threat to patients with cancer...
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Cancer patients diagnosed with COVID-19 infection: a multicenter retrospective cohort of nine Brazilian cancer centers

ABSTRACT Objectives: The COVID-19 infection was declared pandemic in March 2020. Since then, multiple studies have attempted to correlate clinical factors with the risk of complications from COVID-19. However, cancer patients are underrepresented in clinical trials and the results vary between different cohorts. Our goal is to describe a cohort of...
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Considerations for the management of colorectal cancer during the Covid-19 pandemic

ABSTRACT The number of people infected with the coronavirus (COVID-19) is increasing rapidly in Brazil. It has been proven that COVID-19 can be transmitted from human to human and can lead to hospital-acquired infections, which seriously threaten surgical teams and inpatients. We emphasize that the following suggestions are based on...