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العنوان
Knowledge, Attitude and Perception of
a sample of breast cancer patients
towards COVID-19 pandemic /
المؤلف
Karam, Abanoub Samir.
هيئة الاعداد
باحث / ابانوب سمير كرم جيد
مشرف / طـارق حســـين كامـل
مشرف / ناجى سامــى جبران
مشرف / شريف حسنين أحمد
تاريخ النشر
2021.
عدد الصفحات
71 P. :
اللغة
الإنجليزية
الدرجة
ماجستير
التخصص
علم الأورام
تاريخ الإجازة
1/1/2021
مكان الإجازة
جامعة عين شمس - كلية الطب - قسم علاج الاورام والطب النووى
الفهرس
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Abstract

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OVID-19 is a novel coronavirus. On 30th January 2020, the World Health Organization (WHO) declared the current outbreak of COVID-19 and later on 11th of Mar-2020 the number of cases has increased and the number of affected countries has increased, that made the WHO to declare the COVID-19 as a global pandemic.
It has brought great challenges to the treatment of patients with cancer due to the nature of the cancer disease, characteristics of cancer patients (who usually have other comorbidities) and the nature of their immuno-suppressive treatments. Patients with cancer may suffer more during this epidemic period as they are immunocompromised. People who currently have cancer are at higher risk for serious illness if they do become infected. It is important to know that they do not necessarily have a higher risk of catching the virus compared to others.
The purpose of this study was to translate the questionnaire done in India by Ghosh to Arabic and to validate it. Also to assess the patients’ knowledge, attitude and perception about the COVID-19 pandemic and their willingness about continuation of anti-cancer treatment. Patients’ answers were correlated with age, comorbidities, level of education, aim of treatment and knowledge about immunosuppression.
A pilot study of 50 breast cancer patients on active chemotherapy treatment were included in this study. All patients aged more than 18 years with pathologically proven breast cancer and has the ability to read, write or comprehend spoken language.
All of the patients wanted to continue their chemotherapy. Most of the patients fear suffering from cancer if treatment stopped. Also, most of the patients knew that chemotherapy causes immunosuppression which makes them at higher risk of having complications from COVID-19. Nearly half of patients had good knowledge about COVID-19 regarding spread, symptoms and outcome. Nearly half of patients had no worry about catching COVID-19. One third of the patients were bothered about cancer progression, almost one third were bothered about deferring chemotherapy and the other one third nothing was bothering them.
Conclusion
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his study shows that breast cancer patients are more worried about disease progression than COVID-19 and wish to continue chemotherapy during this pandemic.