Coronavirus Disease 2019(COVID-19)has caused a global outbreak and become a major public health *** January 20,2020,the announcement of National Health Commission(No.1 of 2020)included COVID-19 as a category B infecti...
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Coronavirus Disease 2019(COVID-19)has caused a global outbreak and become a major public health *** January 20,2020,the announcement of National Health Commission(No.1 of 2020)included COVID-19 as a category B infectious disease in Law of the People's Republic of China on prevention and control of Infectious Diseases,and took preventing and controlling measures like those of category A infectious diseases^([1]).Tumor patients are more susceptible to infection because of their vulnerable nutritional state and systemic immunosuppressive state caused by antitumor treatments,such as radiotherapy,chemotherapy and surgery^([2]).Cancer patients had an estimated 2-fold increased risk of COVID-19 than the general population according to the Report of the WHO-China Joint Mission on COVID-19^([3]);The incidence rate of COVID-19 in cancer patients in Wuhan is 0.79%,while the general population is 0.37%in the same period^([4]).And the COVID-19 cancer patients were with higher risk to become severe condition and worse prognosis,especially in those patients who received chemotherapy or surgery recently,than those without cancer^([5-6]).In addition,the inconvenience for patients going out to see doctors also leads to the delay of diagnosis and *** a result,under the current severe situation,scientific and effective management measures and reasonable responsive strategies are urgently needed to minimize the impact of the epidemic on tumor patients^([7-9]).Especially recently,the outbreak continues to spread in many countries around the *** Health Organization(WHO)believes the COVID-19 epidemic has the characteristics of a pandemic,calling on all countries to take urgent and active *** such circumstances,experts organized by Classical Traditional Chinese Medicine Prescription for Cancer Treatment and Research Committee of World Federation of Chinese Medicine Societies,discussed and formed"Expert Consensus on Integrated Traditional and Western Medicine P
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