Early impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on paediatric cancer care in Latin America

Liliana Vasquez; Claudia Sampor; Gabriela Villanueva; Essy Maradiegue; Mercedes Garcia-Lombardi; Wendy Gomez-García; Florencia Moreno; Rosdali Diaz; Andrea M Cappellano; Carlos Andres Portilla; Beatriz Salas; Evelinda Nava; Silvia Brizuela; Soledad Jimenez; Ximena Espinoza; Pascale Yola Gassant; Karina Quintero; Soad Fuentes-Alabi; Thelma Velasquez; Ligia Fu; Yessika Gamboa; Juan Quintana; Mariela Castiglioni; Cesar Nuñez; Arturo Moreno; Sandra Luna-Fineman; Silvana Luciani; Guillermo Chantada

doi:10.1016/S1470-2045(20)30280-1

Early impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on paediatric cancer care in Latin America

Lancet Oncol. 2020 Jun;21(6):753-755. doi: 10.1016/S1470-2045(20)30280-1. Epub 2020 May 18.

Authors

Liliana Vasquez¹, Claudia Sampor², Gabriela Villanueva², Essy Maradiegue³, Mercedes Garcia-Lombardi⁴, Wendy Gomez-García⁵, Florencia Moreno⁶, Rosdali Diaz³, Andrea M Cappellano⁷, Carlos Andres Portilla⁸, Beatriz Salas⁹, Evelinda Nava¹⁰, Silvia Brizuela¹¹, Soledad Jimenez¹², Ximena Espinoza¹³, Pascale Yola Gassant¹⁴, Karina Quintero¹⁵, Soad Fuentes-Alabi¹⁶, Thelma Velasquez¹⁷, Ligia Fu¹⁸, Yessika Gamboa¹⁹, Juan Quintana²⁰, Mariela Castiglioni²¹, Cesar Nuñez²², Arturo Moreno²³, Sandra Luna-Fineman²⁴, Silvana Luciani²⁵, Guillermo Chantada²⁶

Affiliations

¹ Pan American Health Organization, Lima, Perú; Centro de Investigación de Medicina de Precision, Universidad de San Martin de Porres, Lima, Peru.
² Oncology Unit, Hospital JP Garrahan, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
³ Pediatric Oncology Department, Instituto Nacional de Enfermedades Neoplasicas, Lima, Peru.
⁴ Oncology Unit, Hospital de Niños Ricardo Gutierrez, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
⁵ Oncology Unit, Hospital Infantil Dr Robert Reid Cabral, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic.
⁶ Oncopediatric National Program, National Cancer Institute, Health Ministry, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
⁷ IOP-GRAACC-UNIFESP, São Paulo, Brazil.
⁸ Pediatric Hematology and Oncology Unit, Centro Médico Imbanaco Pediatric Department, Universidad Del Valle, Cali, Colombia.
⁹ Pediatric Oncology Unit, Hospital del Niño Manuel Ascencio Villarroel, Cercado, Cochabamba, Bolivia.
¹⁰ Pediatric Hematology and Oncology Unit, Hospital de Niños Jesus Garcia Coello, Punto Fijo, Venezuela.
¹¹ Pediatric Hematology and Oncology Unit, Instituto de Prevision Social (HCIPS), Asuncion, Paraguay.
¹² Pediatric Oncology Unit, Hospital Solca Nucleo de Loja, Loja, Ecuador.
¹³ Oncology Unit, Hospital de Niños Dr Roberto del Rio PINDA, Santiago, Chile.
¹⁴ Pediatric Oncology Unit, Hôpital Saint-Damien, Port-au-Prince, Haiti.
¹⁵ Pediatric Oncology Unit, Children's Hospital Dr Jose Renan Esquivel, Panama city, Panama.
¹⁶ Pediatric Oncology Department, Hospital Nacional de Niños Benjamin Bloom, Fundación Ayudame a Vivir, El Salvador city, El Salvador.
¹⁷ Oncology Department, Unidad Nacional de Oncologia Pediatrica, Guatemala City, Guatemala.
¹⁸ Pediatric Hematology and Oncology Unit, Hospital Escuela de Tegucigalpa, Tegucigalpa, Honduras.
¹⁹ Oncology Unit, National Children's Hospital, San José, Costa Rica.
²⁰ Pediatric Hematology and Oncology Unit, Clinica Las Condes, Santiago, Chile.
²¹ Pediatric Hematology and Oncology Center, Hospital Pereira Rossell, Montevideo, Uruguay.
²² Children's Cancer Hospital, Division of Pediatrics, MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, USA.
²³ Hospital Universitario de Puebla, Puebla, Mexico.
²⁴ Hematology/Oncology/Stem Cell Transplantation, Children's Hospital Colorado, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, USA.
²⁵ Unit of Noncommunicable Diseases, Department of Noncommunicable Diseases and Mental Health, Pan American Health Organization, Washington, DC, USA.
²⁶ Precision Medicine Coordination, Hospital JP Garrahan, Buenos Aires, Argentina; National Scientific and Technical Research Council, Buenos Aires C1245AAL, Argentina; Hospital Sant Joan de Déu, Barcelona, Spain. Electronic address: gchantada@yahoo.com.

No abstract available

Publication types

Letter

MeSH terms

Betacoronavirus
COVID-19
Child
Coronavirus Infections / epidemiology*
Cross-Sectional Studies
Health Care Surveys
Humans
Latin America / epidemiology
Medical Oncology / statistics & numerical data*
Neoplasms / diagnosis
Neoplasms / therapy*
Pandemics
Pneumonia, Viral / epidemiology*
Risk Factors
SARS-CoV-2