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If a new coronavirus infection is detected in a child with cancer, then specific antitumor treatment cannot be continued until a negative PCR test for coronavirus is obtained. However, at the same time, the forced postponement of antitumor treatment is fraught with non-compliance with the specific therapy regulations and the development of complications. This was reported to journalists by the chief freelance pediatric oncologist of the Committee of Health of St. Petersburg, head of the pediatric oncology department of the N.N. N.N. Petrova Svetlana Kuleva.
“Now the number of such children has become more frequent, they shed the virus for a long time – several weeks, while antitumor therapy is not carried out, and the child must receive it on time,” Svetlana Kuleva emphasized.
Kuleva said that she oversees the clinic of the St. Petersburg State Pediatric Medical University, where children with cancer and a positive PCR test are sent. “The admission of such children has become more frequent, children have a symptomatic picture of covid after allogeneic or autologous hematopoietic stem cell transplantation, but the deaths of children are mainly associated with the progression of the malignant process.”
Chief Freelance Pediatric Oncologist-Hematologist of the Northwestern Federal District, Head of the Department of Bone Marrow Transplantation, Research Institute of Pediatric Oncology, Hematology and Transplantology named after N.N. R.M. Gorbacheva Tatyana Bykova also said that the problem of long-term virus carriers in children with cancer remains.
“Because of this, we have to postpone allogeneic transplantation in some of the patients who come to us,” Bykova said. There are patients who die from the progression of cancer, and they have concomitant diagnoses of covid, but there was no one who would die from covid.”
Let us add that 120-180 children with oncological diseases are diagnosed in St. Petersburg every year. Oncohematological diseases are in the lead, followed by tumors of the central nervous system. The survival rate of children with cancer reaches an average of 90%.
Source: Rosbalt
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