When you are already fighting against cancer, the occurrence of coronavirus, confinement and all its consequences can multiply the difficulties and anxieties. First, because people with cancer, often immunocompromised, are at greater risk of developing a serious or even fatal form of this infection. Secondly, because undergoing chemotherapy without traveling, continuing your complex protocol via teleconsultation, combining confinement and treatment can prove to be particularly complicated.
Follow-up during containment
The long period of confinement brought its share of questions and loneliness. How can we continue to monitor patients? How can you help your sick relatives without risking infecting them?
As of April 12, the Academy of Medicine had alerted in a press release on the particular situation of the patients reached by a cancer. "Uncertainties about the duration of the epidemic must not postpone indefinitely the introduction of a curative treatment for cancer and thus add cancer mortality to the mortality due to Covid-19," wrote the Academy. In the current health crisis situation, rapid treatment, but adapted to the epidemiological context, must be offered to them. "
But the phase of gradual deconfinement which is beginning to take shape will also pose a certain number of questions… Will cancer patients have to return to the hospital? Will their relatives be able to return to see them?
If you have cancer, tell us how you lived this confinement, your worries, your hopes, your joys ... And explain to us how you envisage this deconfinement: will you change things in your daily life? If yes, what? If not why ? Are you afraid of catching the coronavirus, or on the contrary want to go out? Do you fear the after-effects once a semblance of life from before has returned?
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