Letter to the Editor
A Reminder of Skin Cancer During the COVID-19 Pandemic
Mirna Šitum
; University Hospital Centre Sestre Milosrdnice, Zagreb, Croatia
Nika Filipović
orcid.org/0000-0001-8229-9373
; University Hospital Centre Sestre Milosrdnice, Zagreb, Croatia
Marija Buljan
; University Hospital Centre Sestre Milosrdnice, Zagreb, Croatia
Abstract
The year 2020 has been marked by the coronavirus
disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, caused by an
RNA virus called SARS-COV2 (severe acute respiratory
syndrome coronavirus). The fight against this epidemic
has become the center of our daily clinical practice
as well as of our private lives, in which avoiding infection
has become one of our most important goals.
Even though COVID-19 is a potentially lethal disease,
especially for the elderly and people with chronic diseases,
it did not cause all the other life-threatening
diseases to vanish. On the contrary, many scheduled
medical activities and procedures, especially preventive
and non-urgent internal and surgical activities,
had to be postponed due to COVID-19 crisis. This interruption
in the health care system can negatively
affect the diagnosis and management of our patients
with other health issues, namely malignant skin tumors,
of which melanoma is the most aggressive
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Publication date:
17.3.2021.
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