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ESMO Guidelines Discourage Delayed, Discontinued Treatment During the COVID-19 Pandemic – OncLive
Any type of anti-cancer therapy that could impact overall survival should not be discontinued or delayed.
Any type of anti-cancer therapy that could impact overall survival (OS) should not be discontinued or delayed, according to a European Society for Medical Oncology (ESMO) interdisciplinary expert consensus paper on how to manage patients with cancer during the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic.1
The guidelines, which were recently published in the Annals of Oncology,2 also discourage classifying all patients with cancer as especially vulnerable to COVID-19, regardless of age, gender,…
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