" Be as far as possible kept away from the risk of infection" . Published on March 15 by the High Council for Public Health, the recommendations were clear: deemed more at risk of Covid, and of serious Covid, patients with solid tumors should be kept as far as possible from places of care, surgeries postponed, and a sorting of patients according to the severity of their pathology envisaged so as not to clutter a health system already overloaded with Covid-19. Precautions which seem to have been well heard by the cancer care centers, which have largely reorganized themselves to treat their patients in the best possible way in this eminently complex context.
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Experts brought two arguments in support of a risk for cancer patients: on the one hand, they "are known to be more fragile vis-à-vis viral influenza infections" ; moreover, studies carried out in particular in China seemed to indicate a rate of infection among them.
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