González-Velázquez VE, Pedraza-Rodríguez EM, Rodríguez GMÁ

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To spread of the SARS-CoV-2 virus by the vast majority of countries led the World Health Organization (WHO) to declare the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) as a global pandemic on March 11th, 2020 1. Since then, hospitals and health care centers of affected countries have been forced to implement strategies and policies in accordance with a high demand of health care services by potentially acutely ill patients with a high level of contagiousness.
At the same time, medical professionals have continued offering health care services to patients with urgent conditions or in whom delaying treatment would mean a worse prognosis of the disease. In this context, the surgical treatment of cancer patients does not admit delay, since the risk of metastatic spread and the rapid progression of some malignant tumors make its therapeutic approach to be considered as urgent.

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