COVID-19 and endoscopy: implications for healthcare and digestive cancer screening

Nature Reviews Gastroenterology & Hepatology, Published online: 13 May 2020; doi:10.1038/s41575-020-0312-xThe coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic is affecting and changing the daily practice of gastrointestinal endoscopy worldwide. To protect patients and endoscopy unit personnel, endoscopy units have had to postpone a large proportion of endoscopic procedures. These delays might have an effect on the screening for and surveillance of digestive cancers.
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