How COVID-19 pandemic affected cancer progression: Three different scenarios evidenced by PET imaging.

How COVID-19 pandemic affected cancer progression: Three different scenarios evidenced by PET imaging. Hell J Nucl Med. 2020 Dec 14;: Authors: Mileva M, Artigas C, Gebhart G, Flamen P, Karfis I Abstract COVID-19 pandemic is having a strong impact on healthcare providers around the world, by refocusing and reducing non-essential medical activities. Nuclear medicine departments among others, have been reorganizing and reprioritizing diagnostic and theragnostic procedures. This reorganizing had a negative impact on the supply of positron emission tomography (PET) services to oncologic patients, whose health was affected. We herein present the PET findings in three different cancer scenarios in which disease course was dramatically affected by the COVID-19 outbreak. PMID: 33306764 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
Source: Hellenic Journal of Nuclear Medicine - Category: Nuclear Medicine Tags: Hell J Nucl Med Source Type: research