Thyroid cancer in the Era of COVID-19.

Endocrine

Division of Endocrinology, Hospital de Clínicas, University of Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina.

Published: October 2020

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The recent coronavirus infectious disease (COVID-19) caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) is placing health systems in serious challenges worldwide. Shocking statistics each day has prompted the World Health Organization to officially declare the COVID-19 outbreak as a pandemic in March 2020. Preliminary studies have shown increased mortality in patients with solid cancers and infection by SARS-CoV-2. Until now, the evidence on the behavior of COVID-19 in patients with a history of thyroid cancer remains scarce, and most of the recommendations given are based on common sense. Therefore, in this viewpoint, we present a brief review of several challenges we are frequently facing during this pandemic and a series of recommendations based on what we have implemented in our clinical practice at a university hospital currently mostly dedicated to COVID-19.

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http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7402074PMC
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s12020-020-02439-6DOI Listing

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