{"id":105709,"date":"2020-04-18T22:49:09","date_gmt":"2020-04-19T05:49:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/04\/covid-19-is-shattering-us-cancer-care"},"modified":"2020-04-18T22:49:09","modified_gmt":"2020-04-19T05:49:09","slug":"covid-19-is-shattering-us-cancer-care","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/04\/covid-19-is-shattering-us-cancer-care","title":{"rendered":"Covid-19 is shattering US cancer care"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding-right: 20px\"><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/covid-19-is-shattering-us-cancer-care.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>American oncologists are rushing to prioritise the patients at greatest risk, institute new protections, and learn from their collective experiences, <strong>Bryn Nelson<\/strong> reports.<\/p>\n<p>A patient in Washington, newly diagnosed with breast cancer, fought to get her lumpectomy surgery rescheduled after it was cancelled indefinitely. <a id=\"xref-ref-1-1\" class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bmj.com\/content\/369\/bmj.m1544#ref-1\">1<\/a> A stuffy nose required another patient in Massachusetts with a recurrent brain tumour to undergo multiple layers of screening before he could receive his immunotherapy infusion. <a id=\"xref-ref-2-1\" class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bmj.com\/content\/369\/bmj.m1544#ref-2\">2<\/a> A patient with bladder cancer in North Carolina couldn\u2019t get immunotherapy at all because of a lack of surgical masks and gloves. <a id=\"xref-ref-3-1\" class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bmj.com\/content\/369\/bmj.m1544#ref-3\">3<\/a> Then he was denied a surgical alternative because he needed a covid-19 test first. Since he hadn\u2019t been admitted to a hospital with serious covid-19 symptoms, he didn\u2019t meet the testing criteria.<\/p>\n<p>Covid-19 has wreaked havoc on cancer care throughout the US as medical centres scramble to cancel or rearrange surgeries or treatments, tackle a continuing shortage of tests and supplies, and devise new safety protocols to protect a highly susceptible patient group.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>American oncologists are rushing to prioritise the patients at greatest risk, institute new protections, and learn from their collective experiences, Bryn Nelson reports. A patient in Washington, newly diagnosed with breast cancer, fought to get her lumpectomy surgery rescheduled after it was cancelled indefinitely. 1 A stuffy nose required another patient in Massachusetts with a [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":461,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-105709","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105709","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/461"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=105709"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105709\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=105709"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=105709"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=105709"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}