Delayed cancer diagnoses and high mortality in children during the COVID-19 pandemic
Pediatr Blood Cancer
.
2020 Sep;67(9):e28427.
doi: 10.1002/pbc.28427.
Epub 2020 Jun 26.
Authors
Yang-Yang Ding
1
,
Sneha Ramakrishna
2
,
Adrienne H Long
2
,
Charles A Phillips
1
,
Raul Montiel-Esparza
2
,
Caroline J Diorio
1
,
L Charles Bailey
1
,
Shannon L Maude
1
,
Richard Aplenc
1
,
Vandana Batra
1
,
Anne F Reilly
1
,
Susan R Rheingold
1
,
Norman J Lacayo
2
,
Kathleen M Sakamoto
2
,
Stephen P Hunger
1
Affiliations
1
Division of Oncology and Center for Childhood Cancer Research, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
2
Lucile Packard Children's Hospital Stanford, Palo Alto, California.
PMID:
32588960
PMCID:
PMC7361231
DOI:
10.1002/pbc.28427
No abstract available
Publication types
Letter
Comment
MeSH terms
Betacoronavirus
COVID-19
Child
Coronavirus Infections*
Fear
Humans
Italy
Neoplasms* / diagnosis
Neoplasms* / epidemiology
Pandemics*
Pneumonia, Viral* / epidemiology
SARS-CoV-2
Grants and funding
K12 CA076931/CA/NCI NIH HHS/United States