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cord-351823-ldbscq4s	Leung, Marco Shiu Tsun	COVID‐19 and Oncology: Service transformation during pandemic	2020-08-18		.txt	text/plain	5547	314	52	10 The key recommendations included, first, essential and urgent cancer services must continue, and discuss with patients about risks associated with continuing treatment, second, referrals depart from normal practice and that safety netting must be in place to allow patients to be followed up, and, third, the development of COVID-free hub for cancer surgery with a centralized triage system. Delivery of home SATs certainly has its benefits but is not without challenges, and the advent of the global pandemic has expedited these changes into clinical practice, but it will certainly require close monitoring to ensure there is no increased risks to patients' health and wellbeing. In the specific case of the future optimization and adaptation of oncological services using lessons learned during the COVID-19 era, the previous aforementioned implementation of telemedicine is particularly relevant as many of the oncology department's patients are immunosuppressed and vulnerable to infection, 52 and this would also extend to a COVID-19 absent setting, if at a lesser severity due to treatment and the nature of cancer as a disease.	./cache/cord-351823-ldbscq4s.txt	./txt/cord-351823-ldbscq4s.txt