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LETTER TO THE EDITOR

The Pain of Sending Away Cancer Patients Amidst the COVID-19 Pandemic in Philippines

Frederic Ivan Ting1 Aveline Marie Ylanan2 Dennis Lee Sacdalan1
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1 Department of Medicine, Division of Medical Oncology, University of the Philippines, Philippine General Hospital, Manila , Philippines
2 Department of Radiology, Division of Radiation Oncology, University of the Philippines, Philippine General Hospital, Manila , Philippines
EJMO 2020, 4(4), 349–350; https://doi.org/10.14744/ejmo.2020.50870
Received: 27 April 2020 | Accepted: 13 June 2020 | Published online: 25 December 2020
© 2020 by the Author(s). This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution -Noncommercial 4.0 International License (CC-by the license) ( https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ )
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4. Hanna TP, Evans GA, Booth CM. Cancer, COVID-19 and the precautionary principle: prioritizing treatment during a global pandemic. Nat Rev Clin Oncol 2020;17:268−70.

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