• Anand Gupta, Vipin Arora, Deepa Nair, Nishant Agrawal, Yu-Xiong Su, F Christopher Holsinger, and Chan Jason Y K JYK https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9480-4637 Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery, The Chinese University of Hong Kong.
• Department of Dentistry (Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery), Government Medical College & Hospital, Chandigarh, India.
• Head Neck. 2020 Jul 1; 42 (7): 1460-1465.

AbstractIn India, oral cancer is the most common head and neck cancer (HNC) in men, mainly caused by the consumption of smoked and smokeless tobacco. During the current pandemic, delaying surgery for even 1 or 2 months may lead to more extensive surgery or inoperability, where only supportive care can be provided. Being semi-emergent in nature, treatment for these patients is currently on hold or delayed in most centers across the country. This study was conducted to assess the impact of COVID-19 pandemic and inability of the health system to treat HNC in a timely fashion and how surgeons are coping to this emergent situation. This article highlights the situation in India, a country burdened with one of the highest incidence rates of HNC.© 2020 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.

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