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’s 2019 coronavirus disease (COVID-19) cases, has become the country’s newest epicenter of the pandemic, healthcare providers at °µÍřTV Langone Health’s Perlmutter Cancer Center 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.
“On the cancer center side, I think that it’s very important that we do whatever we can to maintain the cancer services while this is going on because cancer doesn’t stop just because there’s a virus raging through the community,” Dr. Neel says. “So, I think we’re doing a good job of doing that. I think our patients are getting treated well.”
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