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    COVID-19 Vaccinations: Summary Guidance for Cancer Patients in 28 Languages: Breaking Barriers to Cancer Patient Information
    (BENTHAM SCIENCE PUBL LTD, 2022-01-01) Mauri, Davide; Kamposioras, Konstantinos; Tsali, Lampriani; Dambrosio, Mario; De Bari, Berardino; Hindi, Nadia; Salembier, Carl; Nixon, Joanna; Dimitrios, Tzachanis; Alongi, Flippo; Hameed, Hassan; Valachis, Antonios; Papadimitriou, Konstantinos; Corradini, Stefanie; Popovic, Lazar; Kopecky, Jindrich; Rodriguez, Andres; Antunac, Katarina; Yi, Junlin; Lovey, Jozsef; Strojan, Primoz; Saraireh, Haytham; Rotterud, Ranveig; Chojnacka, Marzanna; Olalla, Santa Cruz; Chilingirova, Natalia; De Mello, Ramon Andrade; Araujo Amaral, Giovanna; Arbabi, Farsid; Vidra, Radu; Rapushi, Erjeta; Takeuchi, Dan; Christopoulos, Chirstos; Ivanova, Irina; Djan, Igor; Petricevic, Branka; Cellini, Francesco; Mihaylova, Iglika; Dedic Plavetic, Natalija; Grasic Kuhar, Cvetka; Takeuchi, Elena; Kountourakis, Pantelis; Ntellas, Panagiotis; Gazouli, Ioanna; Gkoura, Stefania; Yuce, Salih; Er, Ozlem; Yasmina, Chait; Kumaran, Gireesh; Spahiu, Orges; Yusuf, Aasim; Gono, Paulina; Apostolidis, Kathi; Tolia, Maria
    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.