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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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Oncological treatment in Brazil: a gender and region are associated to starting the therapeutics

ABSTRACT Introduction: Malignant neoplasms are a major public health problem, being the second leading cause of death in the world. In 2012, the Ministry of Health (BR) instituted Law No. 12,732, which grants cancer patients the right to obtain, from the anatomopathological diagnosis, access to the first treatment in the Brazilian...