Summary of international recommendations in 23 languages for patients with cancer during the COVID-19 pandemic

• Published in: The Lancet Oncology 2020-06, Vol.21 (6), p.759-760
• Main Authors: Mauri, Davide, Kamposioras, Konstantinos, Tolia, Maria, Alongi, Filippo, Tzachanis, Dimitrios, Petricevic, Branka, Chilingirova, Nataliya, Mihaylova, Iglika, Tsakiridis, Theodoros, Salembier, Carl, Papadimitriou, Konstantinos, De Mello, Ramon Andrade, Amaral, Giovanna Araujo, Neves, Nathália Moisés, Dias, Rodrigo, Yi, Junlin, Dedic Plavetic, Natalija, Antunac, Katarina, Kountourakis, Panteleimon, Kopecky, Jindrich, Christopoulos, Christos, Pavese, Ida, Corradini, Stefanie, Zarkavelis, George, Papadaki, Alexandra, Gkantaifi, Areti, Theodorelos, Vasilios, Capizzello, Antonio, Lovey, Jozsef, Cellini, Francesco, Dambrosio, Mario, Takeuchi, Dan, Saraireh, Haytham Hamed, Røtterud, Ranveig, Chojnacka, Marzanna, Papachristos, Athanasios, Djan, Igor, Popovic, Lazar, Grašic Kuhar, Cvetka, Strojan, Primož, Hindi, Nadia, Valachis, Antonis, Åhs, Mari, De Bari, Berardino, Santa Cruz, Olalla, Hameed, Hassan, Takeuchi, Elena, Apostolidis, Kathi, Cardone, Antonella, Gono, Paulina, Filis, Panagiotis
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Subjects: Betacoronavirus; Bone marrow; Cancer therapies; Chemotherapy; Coronavirus Infections - complications; Coronavirus Infections - epidemiology; Coronavirus Infections - prevention & control; Coronaviruses; COVID-19; Exercise; Hospitals; Humans; Infections; Language; Medical Oncology - organization & administration; Medical Oncology - standards; Neoplasms - complications; Neoplasms - therapy; Oncology; Opportunistic Infections - complications; Opportunistic Infections - prevention & control; Pandemics; Pandemics - prevention & control; Patients; Physicians; Pneumonia, Viral - complications; Pneumonia, Viral - epidemiology; Pneumonia, Viral - prevention & control; Practice Guidelines as Topic; Prevention; SARS-CoV-2; Stress; Transplants & implants; Vaccines
• ISSN: 1470-2045; 1474-5488
• DOI: 10.1016/S1470-2045(20)30278-3

[...]we have translated the summary of the comprehensive recommendations into 22 languages (Arabic, Bulgarian, Catalan, Chinese, Croatian, Czech, Dutch, English, French, German, Greek, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Serbian, Slovenian, Spanish, and Swedish). Building trust between physicians and patients to enhance patients' confidence in medical staff decisions and improve their compliance with medical advice is important, and is the fifth area of recommendation (appendix p 13). [...]the sixth area of recommendation concerns the procedures at cancer centres (appendix p 16).