Abstract

  The coronavirus pandemic has become global health emergency. This pandemic stage has brought great challenges to the diagnosis and management of Colorectal cancer (CRC). Surgery being the cornerstone of treatment is difficult to perform at this stage when there is so much burden on the limited hospital resources and social distancing is the only hope of staying protected from such contagious virus. Moreover cancer patients are highly susceptible to Covid-19 infection and treating cancer patients like before is associated with devastating complication with very poor outcome. At this stage healthcare providers should not emphasize only on therapeutics strategy but also on prevention from Covid-19. In this paper we have focused on the challenges pertaining to the screening, diagnosis and management of CRC and the best efforts that can to made to mitigate risks with the available resources.

Keywords: Covid-19; Colorectal Cancer (CRC); Coronavirus Disease

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Citation

Citation: Shalini Verma., et al. “Challenges in Screening, Diagnosis and Management of Colorectal Cancers in Covid-19 Era". Acta Scientific Medical Sciences 4.11 (2020): 28-33.

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