Komal Muneshwar
Dr, Department of Community Medicine, Jawaharlal Nehru Medical College, Datta Meghe Institute of Medical Sciences (Deemed to be University), Wardha, Maharashtra, IndiaPublications
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Review Article
Effect of COVID-19 in Cancer Patients
Author(s): Adarsh Singharoy and Komal Muneshwar*
The evidential studies would indicate that there are a large number of people with cancer or cancer survivors who would have an on-going COVID infection or may have got a COVID infection sometime in their lives. The analytical study done with all stages and types of neoplasm with data collected in the span of one year. All variables of interest were extracted from electronic medical records. The situation may exacerbate the economic difficulties that already exist among cancer survivors, who may be suffering from both cancer related financial toxicity and economic pressures brought on by lost income and extended unemployment after the epidemic. Living in areas with scarce resources, like Southeast Asia, cancer survivors are likely to feel the effects of the pandemic more acutely. Patients may present with exacerbated diseases and at later stages of cancer, when tr.. Read More»