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Guidelines for colorectal cancer management during COVID-19: a peek behind the paper with Benjamin Weinberg

Written by Benjamin Weinberg (Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center, DC, USA)

Take a peek behind the latest paper published in Colorectal Cancer, discussing various strategies that could reduce the risk and maintain the benefit of colorectal cancer (CRC) treatment during the COVID-19 pandemic. Here, Benjamin Weinberg, medical oncologist at the Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center (DC, USA), talks about the importance of adapting treatment guidelines, and the potential treatment environment post-pandemic. Weinberg specializes in the treatment of patients with CRC and pancreatic cancers.   Why is it so important to consider changing treatment guidelines for oncologists during the COVID-19 pandemic? We must be careful to not restrict beneficial cancer treatments, whilst also...

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