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