Perlmutter Cancer Center director Dr. Benjamin G. Neel discusses cancer care during a pandemic.
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As New York City, with more than half of New York state鈥檚 2019 coronavirus disease (COVID-19) cases, has become the country鈥檚 newest epicenter of the pandemic, healthcare providers at 嘿嘿视频 Health鈥檚 Perlmutter Cancer Center聽have adopted procedures to keep people with cancer, as well as themselves, safe.
For example, physicians have substituted telemedicine for on-site visits, , director of Perlmutter Cancer Center, tells The Cancer Letter.
鈥淥n the cancer center side, I think that it鈥檚 very important that we do whatever we can to maintain the cancer services while this is going on because cancer doesn鈥檛 stop just because there鈥檚 a virus raging through the community,鈥 Dr. Neel says. 鈥淪o, I think we鈥檙e doing a good job of doing that. I think our patients are getting treated well.鈥
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