THE RESILIENCE OF ONCOLOGISTS DURING THE EARLY TIME OF THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC

Abstract

With the emergence of COVID-19, Oncologists have had to face up to the challenge of continuing active treatments without compromising patients and healthcare personnel’s safety. We introduced a double-step triage strategy (by phone and on site) for cancer patients in order to identify patients at risk of COVID-19 and to avoid their admission to our Oncology Unit. From February 24 th to April 7 th 2020