Guidance for management of cancer surgery during the COVID-19 pandemic

Christian Finley¹, Anubha Prashad¹, Natasha Camuso¹+13

• ¹From the Canadian Partnership Against Cancer (Finley, Prashad, Camuso, Daly, Earle); the Canadian Network of Surgical Associations for Cancer Care (Aprikian, Ball, Bentley, Charest, Fata, Helyer, O'Connell, Moloo, Seely, Werier, Zhong); the Canadian Urological Association and the Division of Urology, Department of Surgery, McGill University, Montreal, Que. (Aprikian); the Canadian Hepato-Pancreatico-Biliary Association and the Department of Surgery, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alta. (Ball); the Society for Gynecologic Oncology of Canada and the Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS (Bentley); the Canadian Neurosurgical Society and the Department of Neurosurgery, Dalhousie University New Brunswick, Moncton, NB (Charest); the Canadian Association of General Surgeons and the Division of General Surgery, Department of Surgery, McGill University, Montreal, Que. (Fata); the Canadian Society of Surgical Oncology and the Department of General Surgery, Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS (Helyer); the Canadian Association of Head and Neck Surgical Oncology and the Division of Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alta.(O'Connell); the Canadian Society of Colon and Rectal Surgeons and the Division of General Surgery, Department of Surgery, University of Ottawa, and the Ottawa Hospital Research Institute, Ottawa, Ont. (Moloo); the Canadian Association of Thoracic Surgeons and the Department of Cellular and Molecular Medicine, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ont. (Seely); the Canadian Orthopaedic Oncology Society and the Division of Orthopaedic Surgery, Department of Surgery, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ont. (Werier); the Canadian Society of Plastic Surgeons and the Department of Surgery, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ont. (Zhong); the Department of Surgery, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ont. (Finley); the Department of Gastrointestinal Oncology, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, Toronto, Ont. (Earle); and the Canadian Journal of Surgery (Ball).