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ArticleThe Lancet. Oncology2020

Preparedness for COVID-19 in the oncology community in Africa.

Verna Vanderpuye, Moawia Mohammed Ali Elhassan, Hannah Simonds

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Article in The Lancet. Oncology, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 21 papers, 4 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

21 citing papers in PubMed, 4 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.

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  4. The Effects of COVID-19 on Cancer Care Provision: A Systematic Review.Cancer control : journal of the Moffitt Cancer Center
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  13. Novel coronavirus mitigation measures implemented by radiotherapy centres in low and middle-income countries: a systematic review.Reports of practical oncology and radiotherapy : journal of Greatpoland Cancer Center in Poznan and Polish Society of Radiation Oncology · 2021
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Verna VanderpuyeNational Center for Radiotherapy, Oncology and Nuclear medicine, P.O BOX KB 369. Korle Bu Teaching Hospital, Accra GQQF+6R, Ghana. Electronic address: vanaglat@yahoo.com.
Moawia Mohammed Ali ElhassanThe National Cancer Institute, University of Gezira, Wad Madani, Sudan.
Hannah SimondsStellenbosch University, Stellenbosch, South Africa.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

Coronavirus InfectionsAfricaBetacoronavirusCOVID-19Disease OutbreaksHumansPandemicsPneumonia, ViralSARS-CoV-2

Identifiers

PMID32251623
PMCPMC7270461

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