Gianluca Vanni, Marco Pellicciaro, Marco Materazzo, Mario Dauri, Rolando Maria D'angelillo, Chiara Buonomo, Adriano De Majo, Chiara Pistolese, Ilaria Portarena, Alessandro Mauriello, Francesca Servadei, Erica Giacobbi, Agostino Chiaravalloti, Oreste Claudio Buonomo
INTRODUCTION: COVID-19 is a declared worldwide pandemic. In our country, due to shortage of hospitals and beds in intensive care unit, oncological and breast cancer (BC) resources are temporarily shifted to COVID-19 patients. In addition, risk of cross-infections should be considered in these frail patients. To accomplish more surgical procedures and to reduce the length of hospital stay (LOS), fast track awake BC surgery should be implemented. The aim of the study is to estimate the effects of surgical shift in our facility during the early COVID-19 outbreak...
January 2021: Breast Cancer: the Journal of the Japanese Breast Cancer Society