1. COVID-19 Vaccinations: Summary Guidance for Cancer Patients in 28 Languages: Breaking Barriers to Cancer Patient Information
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Branka Petricevic, Antonios Valachis, Lazar Popovic, Erjeta Rapushi, ER Özlem, Konstantinos Papadimitriou, Hassan Hameed, Farsid Arbabi, Gono Paulina, Joanna Nixon, Panagiotis Ntellas, Iglika Mihaylova, Nadia Hindi, Ioanna Gazouli, Ramon Andrade de Mello, Marzanna Chojnacka, Dimitrios Tzachanis, Haytham Hamed Saraireh, P. Kountourakis, Igor Djan, Andres Rodriguez, Flippo Alongi, Natalia Chilingirova, Lovey Jozsef, Salih Yuce, Cruz Olalla Santa, Mario Dambrosio, Berardino De Bari, Plavetic Natalija Dedic, Stefanie Corradini, Radu Vidra, Aasim Yusuf, Chirstos Christopoulos, Irina Ivanova, Davide Mauri, Kuhar Cvetka Grašič, Apostolidis Kathi, Lampriani Tsali, Tolia Maria, Stefania Gkoura, Kamposioras Konstantinos, Ranveig Røtterud, Orges Spahiu, Yasmina Chait, Katarina Antunac, Francesco Cellini, Jindrich Kopecky, Primoz Strojan, Elena Takeuchi, D. Takeuchi, Amaral Giovanna Araujo, Kumaran Gireesh, Carl Salembier, Junlin Yi, and Acibadem University Dspace
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languages ,medicine.medical_specialty ,COVID-19 Vaccines ,Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) ,Population ,RS ,Neoplasms ,Patient information ,medicine ,Humans ,vaccination ,cancer patients ,global ,guidance ,Language ,Pharmacology ,COVID-19 ,cancer ,pandemic ,business.industry ,Pharmacology. Therapy ,Vaccination ,Cancer ,Cancer patients ,Global ,General Medicine ,medicine.disease ,Family medicine ,Languages ,Guidance ,business - Abstract
Background: Covid-19 vaccination has started in the majority of the countries at the global level. Cancer patients are at high risk for infection, serious illness, and death from COVID-19 and need vaccination guidance and support. Guidance availability in the English language only is a major limit for recommendations’ delivery and their application in the world’s population and generates information inequalities across the different populations. Methods: Most of the available COVID-19 vaccination guidance for cancer patients was screened and scrutinized by the European Cancer Patients Coalition (ECPC) and an international oncology panel of 52 physicians from 33 countries. Results: A summary guidance was developed and provided in 28 languages in order to reach more than 70 percent of the global population. Conclusion: Language barrier and e-guidance availability in the native language are the most important barriers when communicating with patients. E-guidance availability in various native languages should be considered a major priority by international medical and health organizations that are communicating with patients at the global level.
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- 2022
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