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
Word count abstract : 250
Word count main text: 3098
Supporting Information files : 1
Number of tables : 1
Number of figures : 4
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.