AccScience Publishing / EJMO / Volume 4 / Issue 2 / DOI: 10.14744/ejmo.2020.46287
LETTER TO THE EDITOR

Double Trouble: Challenges of Cancer Care in the Philippines during the COVID-19 Pandemic

Frederic Ivan L. Ting1 Gracieux Y. Fernando1
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1 Division of Medical Oncology, Department of Medicine, University of the Philippines - Philippine General Hospital, Manila, Philippine
EJMO 2020, 4(2), 135–136; https://doi.org/10.14744/ejmo.2020.46287
Submitted: 26 March 2020 | Accepted: 13 April 2020 | Published: 15 April 2020
© 2020 by the Author(s). This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution -Noncommercial 4.0 International License (CC-by the license) ( https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ )
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None declared.
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