Impact of COVID-19 in pediatric oncology care in Latin America during the first year of the pandemic
Authors: Gabriela Villanueva 1, Claudia Sampor2, Julia Palma3, Milena Villarroel3, Diana Valencia4, Mercedes García Lombardi5, Wendy Gomez Garcia6, Eva Lezcano Caceres7, Victoria Sobrero8, Lilia Garcia9, Victor Cabrera10, Ivan Maza11, Thelma Velasquez12, Cecilia Ugaz13, Jacqueline Montoya Vasquez13, Rosdali Diaz Coronado13, Natalia Gonzalez14, Simone Aguiar15, Agustin Dabezies16, Florencia Moreno17, Susan Sardinas18, Yessika Gamboa19, Essy Maradiegue20, Ligia Fu21, Pascale Gassant22,  Katiuska Moreno23, Oscar Gonzales24, Magdalena Schelotto25,  Sandra Luna-Fineman26, Celia Gianotti Antoneli27,  Soad Fuentes-Alabi28,29, Silvana Luciani28, Andrea Cappellano30, Guillermo Chantada1,25, Liliana Vasquez28,31
1 Hospital Austral, Pediatrics Hematology and Oncology, Pilar, Argentina,
2 Hospital J.P Garrahan, Service of Hematology/Oncology, Buenos Aires, Argentina
3 Hospital Luis Calvo Mackenna, Pediatric Oncology, Santiago, Chile
4 Hospital Universitario de Santander IMAT oncomedica, Pediatric Oncology, Colombia
5 Hospital de Niños Ricardo Gutierrez, Pediatric Oncology, Buenos Aires, Argentina
6 Dr. Robert Reid Cabral Children’s Hospital, Hematology-Oncology, Dominican Republic
7 Hospital Central Instituto de Prevision Social, Pediatric Oncology, Asunción, Paraguay
8 Hospital Ramon Carrillo, Pediatric Oncology, San Carlos De Bariloche, Argentina
9 Centro Universitario Contra el Cáncer UANL
10 Hospital Regional Río Blanco, Pediatric Oncology, Orizaba, Mexico
11 Hospital Rebagliati, Pediatric Oncology, Lima, Peru
12 Unidad Nacional de Oncología Pediátrica, Pediatric Oncology, Guatemala City, Guatemala
13 Instituto Nacional de Enfermedades Neoplásicas, Lima, Peru
14 Hospital Militar Nacional de Colombia, Bogotá, Colombia
15 Hospital Sta Marcelina/ TUCCA, Pediatric Oncology, São Paulo, Brazil
16 Pediatric Hemato Oncology Honorary Advisor Consultant MUCAM, Montevideo, Uruguay
17 Registro Onco-pediatrico Hospitalario Argentino (ROHA, Hospitalbased Pediatric Cancer Registry from Argentina), Registry, Instituto Nacional del Cancer, Argentina
18 Hospital del Niño Ovidio Aliaga Uria, La Paz, Bolivia
19 Hospital Nacional de Niños, Pediatric Oncology, San José, Costa Rica
20 Ministry of health, Prevention of cancer directorate, Lima, Peru
21 Hospital Escuela Universitario, Hemato-Oncologia, Tegucigalpa, Honduras,
22Hôpital Saint - Damien, Pediatric Oncology, Port-au-Prince, Haiti
23 Hospital Verdi Cevallos Balda - Hospital especialidades Portoviejo, Docente de pregrado de hematologia universidad laica Eloy Alfaro de Manabi, Manabi, Ecuador
24 Hospital Civil de Guadalajara Dr. Juan I Menchaca. Guadalajara Jalisco México
25 Hospital Pereira Rossell, Pediatric Oncology, Montevideo, Uruguay
26 University of Colorado School of Medicine, Aurora, CO 80045, USA; Department for the Management of Noncommunicable Diseases, Disability, Violence and Injury Prevention, World Health Organization Geneva, Switzerland
27 Universidade Nove the Julhio, São Pablo, Brazil
28 Pan American Health Organization, Non-Communicable Diseases, Washington D.C., USA
29Hospital Nacional de Niños Benjamin Bloom y Fundacion Ayudame a Vivir Pro- Ninos con Cancer de El Salvador, Pediatric Oncology, San Salvador, El Salvador
30 Instituto de Oncologia Pediátrica - IOP/GRAACC/UNIFESP, Department of Pediatric Neuro-oncology, São Paulo, Brazil
31 Universidad de San Martín de Porres, Facultad de Medicina, Centro de Investigación de Medicina de Precisión. Lima, Perú
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Running title : Covid-19 impact pediatric cancer care in LATAM
Keywords: Pediatric cancer, COVID-19, healthcare delivery, survey, Latin America, low-and-middle-income countries.