Open AccessCOVID-19 Vaccinations: Summary Guidance for Cancer Patients in 28 Languages: Breaking Barriers to Cancer Patient Information
Author(s) -
Davide Mauri,
K. Kamposioras,
Lampriani Tsali,
M. Dambrosio,
Berardino De Bari,
Nadia Hindi,
Carl Salembier,
Joanixon,
Dimitrios Tzachanis,
F. Alongi,
Hassan Hameed,
Antonios Valachis,
Konstantinos Papadimitriou,
Stefanie Corradini,
Lazar Popović,
Jindřich Kopecký,
Andrés Rodríguez,
Katarina Antunac,
Junlin Yi,
József Lövey,
Primož Strojan,
Haytham Hamed Saraireh,
Ranveig Røtterud,
Marzanna Chojnacka,
Cruz Olalla Santa,
Natalia Chilingirova,
Ramon Andrade De Mello,
A.S. Araújo,
Farsid Arbabi,
Radu Vidra,
Erjeta Rapushi,
Dan Takeuchi,
Chirstos Christopoulos,
Ирина Иванова,
I. Djan,
Branka Petričević,
Francesco Cellini,
Iglika Mihaylova,
Plavetic Natalija Dedic,
Kuhar Cvetka Grašič,
Elena Takeuchi,
P. Kountourakis,
Panagiotis Ntellas,
Ioanna Gazouli,
Stefania Gκoura,
Salih Yuce,
Özlem Er,
Yasmina Chait,
Kumaran Gireesh,
O. Spahiu,
Aasim Yusuf,
Paulina Gono,
Kathi Apostolidis,
Maria Tolia
Publication year - 2022
Publication title -
reviews on recent clinical trials
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.509
H-Index - 31
eISSN - 1876-1038
pISSN - 1574-8871
DOI - 10.2174/1574887116666211028145848
Subject(s) - medicine , vaccination , covid-19 , cancer , language barrier , population , global health , family medicine , medline , environmental health , public health , pathology , disease , linguistics , political science , philosophy , infectious disease (medical specialty) , law
Background: Covid-19 vaccination has started in the majority of the countries at the global level. Cancer patients are at high risk for infection, serious illness, and death from COVID-19 and need vaccination guidance and support. Guidance availability in the English language only is a major limit for recommendations’ delivery and their application in the world’s population and generates information inequalities across the different populations. Methods: Most of the available COVID-19 vaccination guidance for cancer patients was screened and scrutinized by the European Cancer Patients Coalition (ECPC) and an international oncology panel of 52 physicians from 33 countries.Results: A summary guidance was developed and provided in 28 languages in order to reach more than 70 percent of the global population. Conclusion: Language barrier and e-guidance availability in the native language are the most important barriers when communicating with patients. E-guidance availability in various native languages should be considered a major priority by international medical and health organizations that are communicating with patients at the global level.