Literature Review and Evidence Collection
A literature review was performed by two authors (VWH, SAI) searching for all published English-language literature reporting on head and neck cancer in the SARS-CoV-2 era. A search strategy was employed with the following search strings: “virus OR corona OR covid OR survival” with “head and neck cancer” in the last 5 years on PubMed, Scopus, Cochrane Library, OVID, and Google. An independent search query was also employed with “head and neck mental health” and “head and neck survivorship”. To identify additional articles, the reference lists of relevant articles were hand searched, as well as citing articles. Results were limited to English articles. After the completed search, a total list of records was obtained and duplicates removed. Articles were considered for discussion if they provided relevant quality of life measures and protocols for head and neck cancer care in the context of this SARS-CoV-2 pandemic. A final list of full text articles was then compiled and each article was then screened by one author.