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ArticleFrontiers in oncology2019

Leveraging National Cancer Institute Programmatic Collaboration for Uterine Cervix Cancer Brachytherapy in Puerto Rico After Hurricane Maria.

Charles A Kunos, Percy Ivy

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Article in Frontiers in oncology, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

3 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

  1. Climate disasters and oncology care: a systematic review of effects on patients, healthcare professionals, and health systems.Supportive care in cancer : official journal of the Multinational Association of Supportive Care in Cancer · 2023
    Pooled it
  2. Perspectives on the Health Effects of Hurricanes: A Review and Challenges.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2021
    Review
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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Charles A KunosCancer Therapy Evaluation Program, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, MD, United States.
Percy IvyCancer Therapy Evaluation Program, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, MD, United States.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Evaluating the impact of natural disasters on cancer patients is vital to the recovery of cancer treatment services and infrastructure. In September 2017, Hurricane Maria demolished the gynecologic cancer service in the United States territory of Puerto Rico and its outreach to the territory of the Virgin Islands of the United States. Patient access to brachytherapy for uterine cervix cancer patients can be difficult to measure in the aftermath of a hurricane. The United States National Cancer Institute (NCI) surveyed gynecologic radiation medicine providers on the island to generate an independent perspective on gynecologic brachytherapy service recovery after the hurricane. Providers were asked about patient displacement, infrastructure loss, and reestablishment of cancer treatment. Here, the NCI provides its perspective on recovery of these services as it relates to its pre-hurricane investment for staff in the NCI Community Oncology Research Program.

Indexed as

brachytherapycervical cancerNational Cancer Institute (NCI)Puerto Ricouterine cervix cancer

Identifiers

PMID31157171
PMCPMC6534049

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