{"id":2079,"date":"2021-02-01T14:27:23","date_gmt":"2021-02-01T22:27:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bethechoice.org\/?p=2079"},"modified":"2021-02-01T14:27:33","modified_gmt":"2021-02-01T22:27:33","slug":"covid-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bethechoice.org\/fr\/covid-19\/","title":{"rendered":"A Note on COVID-19"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">At <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Be the Choice<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, we\u2019ve always said that cancer patients need choices now more than ever before. This is especially true in the COVID-19 era. COVID has placed an immense burden on our health care system, resulting in delayed treatments, cancelled surgeries and postponed appointments.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">As we try to cope (and beat) COVID-19, cancer patients are waiting. We understand why, but this doesn&rsquo;t make it any easier.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Breast cancer patients need us more than ever before. We&rsquo;re open 24-7, we&rsquo;re peer reviewed, we&rsquo;re sensitive to reproductive health, we&rsquo;re comprehensive in outlining surgical options, and the tool is interactive and easy to use.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Here\u2019s what we\u2019re doing to help:<\/span><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/bethechoice.org\/wpfiles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/KLJwbtYg.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2082 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/bethechoice.org\/wpfiles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/KLJwbtYg-300x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bethechoice.org\/wpfiles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/KLJwbtYg-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/bethechoice.org\/wpfiles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/KLJwbtYg-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/bethechoice.org\/wpfiles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/KLJwbtYg-768x768.png 768w, https:\/\/bethechoice.org\/wpfiles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/KLJwbtYg.png 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In response to COVID-19, and to better serve breast cancer patients after COVID-19, we\u2019ve enhanced our <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/bethechoice.org\/tree\/test\/breast-cancer-diagnosed\/decision-trees\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Decision Trees<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Thanks to a dedicated team of volunteers from the medical school at the <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">University of Ottawa, we<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> carefully curated over 50 new resources. The Decision Trees now offer users a range of learning modalities including videos and links to other (reliable) websites and research studies.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The external resources have been added to each decision tree on the relevant pages. Simply click on \u2018links\u2019 or \u2018videos\u2019 at the top of each page to access them:\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/bethechoice.org\/wpfiles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Screen-Shot-2021-02-01-at-5.22.49-PM.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-2080\" src=\"https:\/\/bethechoice.org\/wpfiles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Screen-Shot-2021-02-01-at-5.22.49-PM-300x50.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"50\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bethechoice.org\/wpfiles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Screen-Shot-2021-02-01-at-5.22.49-PM-300x50.png 300w, https:\/\/bethechoice.org\/wpfiles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Screen-Shot-2021-02-01-at-5.22.49-PM.png 412w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Be the Choice <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">would like to thank Salem Ogbalidet, Mina Boshra, Hussain Alkhaiyat, and Jeanne Monique S\u00e9guin! Without your commitment and diligence, this project would not have been possible.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">At <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Be the Choice<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, we\u2019ve always been committed to working collaboratively with others in order to empower breast cancer patients to make informed decisions about the treatments they receive. Cancer and treatments are evolving quickly and <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Be the Choice<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> is committed to evolving with this research.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Want to stay informed about all of our projects? <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/bethechoice.org\/newsletter-sign-up\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Subscribe to our Newsletter<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, and follow us on <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/BTC.DecisionTree\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BeTheChoice_\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">!<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At Be the Choice, we\u2019ve always said that cancer patients need choices now more than ever before. This is especially true in the COVID-19 era. COVID has placed an immense burden on our health care system, resulting in delayed treatments, cancelled surgeries and postponed appointments.\u00a0 As we try to cope (and beat) COVID-19, cancer patients [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2079","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bethechoice.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2079","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bethechoice.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bethechoice.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bethechoice.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bethechoice.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2079"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bethechoice.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2079\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2085,"href":"https:\/\/bethechoice.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2079\/revisions\/2085"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bethechoice.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2079"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bethechoice.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2079"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bethechoice.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2079"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}