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Rachna Seth , Gargi Das , Kanwaljeet Kaur , R. Mohanaraj , Prasanth Siri , Kazi Abdul Mannan , Piali Mandal , Debasish Sahoo , Tincy Thomas , Meenakshi Raina , Aditya Gupta , Jagdish Prasad Meena ·

YOU? · · 2020 · Open Access · · DOI: https://doi.org/10.22541/au.159129064.47440633 · OA: W3045073282

The pandemic of the novel coronavirus disease, COVID-19 is having a serious impact on pediatric patients with cancer. Social distancing, self-quarantining and nationwide lockdown have resulted in restricted movements of patients and families across the country. This has made the optimum management of children with cancer difficult. In this clinical perspective, we discuss the issues related to COVID-19 and pediatric cancer and how we have attempted to optimize the treatment for our patients using telemedicine, reorganizing the day care services, triaging our patients and modifying their treatment plans, partnered with the NGOs and local medical centres to provide care to our patients.