Literature Review and Evidence Collection
A literature review was performed by two authors (VWH, SAI) searching
for all published English-language literature reporting on head and neck
cancer in the SARS-CoV-2 era. A search strategy was employed with the
following search strings: “virus OR corona OR covid OR survival” with
“head and neck cancer” in the last 5 years on PubMed, Scopus, Cochrane
Library, OVID, and Google. An independent search query was also employed
with “head and neck mental health” and “head and neck survivorship”.
To identify additional articles, the reference lists of relevant
articles were hand searched, as well as citing articles. Results were
limited to English articles. After the completed search, a total list of
records was obtained and duplicates removed. Articles were considered
for discussion if they provided relevant quality of life measures and
protocols for head and neck cancer care in the context of this
SARS-CoV-2 pandemic. A final list of full text articles was then
compiled and each article was then screened by one author.