The impact of the SARS-CoV-2 infection in all areas at the national and international level is undeniable, the aftermath of this “tornado” will be visible for a long time, even when the infection manages to be controlled. Two aspects of great interest to those of us who work in the area of oncology must be considered: on the one hand, the need to contain and control the devastating effects of the disease forced a reorganization in the operation of services, giving priority to COVID, conversion of medical units to hospitals COVID created a high-risk scenario for patients with other types of pathologies; This reorganization includes the allocation of large amounts of budget to COVID areas to the detriment of patients with other types of equally serious diseases - such as cancer, among others - who cannot wait for care in better times.
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health services, will take a long time, it will be work slow). Prelim-
inarily, some studies suggest that cancer mortality will increase,
this trend should be rigorously monitored, since the effect could
be observed for several years. In Argentina, cancer mortality data
for 2020 will be available until the end of 2021 or the first quarter
of 2022 (there is a lag of close to one year), so we will not be able
to obtain information or conclusions about the initial impact of
the pandemic of early form. I hope that these risk scenarios are
only a personal misinterpretation of the available information, but
this should not prevent the evaluation of potential risk scenarios,
as well as the development of containment and response plans by
those responsible for planning in the care cancer patients.