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  2. UK Coronavirus Cancer Monitoring Project - Wikipedia

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    The UK Birmingham Chemotherapy cancer COVID-19 project analysed the utility of testing every patient on chemotherapy for COVID-19 using PCR nasopharyngeal swab screening. [25] This was the first study in the world to show the clinical utility of screening for COVID-19 to prevent outbreaks amongst highly vulnerable patients who were ...

  3. COVID-19 and cancer - Wikipedia

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    Even though many COVID-19 patients recover within 2–6 weeks of the onset of symptoms, some develop symptoms that come and go for months. The possibility has been raised, but needs to be investigated further, that patients with long COVID-19 may be predisposed to the development of lung cancer.

  4. Chemotherapy - Wikipedia

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    Chemotherapy may be given with a curative intent (which almost always involves combinations of drugs), or it may aim only to prolong life or to reduce symptoms (palliative chemotherapy). Chemotherapy is one of the major categories of the medical discipline specifically devoted to pharmacotherapy for cancer, which is called medical oncology. [1] [2]

  5. COVID-19 pandemic cases - Wikipedia

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    The first section contains summary information: the total number of countries and territories with at least 100, 1,000, 10,000, 100,000, a million and ten million cases; the number of cases reported to WHO; the countries and territories that have reported no cases yet to WHO; and two charts showing the 20 countries and territories with the ...

  6. Cancer treatment - Wikipedia

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    Cancer treatment needs to be selected to do least harm to both the woman and her embryo/fetus. In some cases a therapeutic abortion may be recommended. Radiation therapy is out of the question, and chemotherapy always poses the risk of miscarriage and congenital malformations. [63] Little is known about the effects of medications on the child.

  7. Coronavirus diseases - Wikipedia

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    Coronavirus diseases are caused by viruses in the coronavirus subfamily, a group of related RNA viruses that cause diseases in mammals and birds. In humans and birds, the group of viruses cause respiratory tract infections that can range from mild to lethal.

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  9. Coronavirus - Wikipedia

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    Although the common cold is usually caused by rhinoviruses, [94] in about 15% of cases the cause is a coronavirus. [95] The human coronaviruses HCoV-OC43, HCoV-HKU1, HCoV-229E, and HCoV-NL63 continually circulate in the human population in adults and children worldwide and produce the generally mild symptoms of the common cold. [88]