Influence of the First Wave of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Cancer Care in a German Comprehensive Cancer Center

• Main Authors: Johanna Kirchberg (Author), Anke Rentsch (Author), Anna Klimova (Author), Vasyl Vovk (Author), Sebastian Hempel (Author), Gunnar Folprecht (Author), Mechthild Krause (Author), Verena Plodeck (Author), Thilo Welsch (Author), Jürgen Weitz (Author), Johannes Fritzmann (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Frontiers Media S.A., 2021-11-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Introduction: During the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, the German government implemented legal restrictions to avoid the overloading of intensive care units by patients with COVID-19. The influence of these effects on diagnosis and treatment of cancer in Germany is largely unknown.Met...