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Between Scylla and Charybdis — Oncologic Decision Making in the Time of Covid-19

Mark A. Lewis

2020New England Journal of Medicine78 citationsDOI

Abstract

Between Scylla and Charybdis As the deaths from Covid-19 have mounted, many patients with cancer struggle to process the case fatality rate in the context of all the other statistics their oncologi...

Topics & Concepts

Case fatality rateContext (archaeology)Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19)2019-20 coronavirus outbreakBiologyMedicineVirologyOutbreakPathologyEpidemiologyDiseasePaleontologyInfectious disease (medical specialty)COVID-19 and healthcare impactsHealthcare cost, quality, practicesEconomic and Financial Impacts of Cancer