Abstract
OPINION article Front. Oncol., 24 March 2021Sec. Head and Neck Cancer Volume 11 - 2021 | https://doi.org/10.3389/fonc.2021.651123
Highlights
At the end of December 2019, Chinese public health authorities reported several cases of acute respiratory syndrome in Wuhan City, Hubei province in China [1]
These concerns together with a mounting experience of resource constraints were taken into consideration, when consensus guidelines for head and neck cancer treatment were developed based on expert opinion and Delphi exercises for both radiation therapy (RT) and surgery [4, 5]
It was suggested that surgery for oropharyngeal cancer could be avoided as RT- and chemoradiation therapy (CRT) were considered to be alternative regimes that were comparably efficient in terms of cancer control with less risk for SARS-COV-2 related mortality [4]
Summary
At the end of December 2019, Chinese public health authorities reported several cases of acute respiratory syndrome in Wuhan City, Hubei province in China [1]. On in the pandemic, data from Wuhan emerged suggesting an increased mortality among surgical patients during the incubation period of a COVID 19 pneumonia. It was suggested that surgery for oropharyngeal cancer could be avoided as RT- and chemoradiation therapy (CRT) were considered to be alternative regimes that were comparably efficient in terms of cancer control with less risk for SARS-COV-2 related mortality [4].
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