Figure 3. Multidisciplinary Approach for Management of Early Breast Cancer during the Covid-19 Pandemic.

Ideally, the multidisciplinary team would include a surgical oncologist, a radiation oncologist, a medical oncologist, a genetics expert (if needed), a social worker (if needed), and a person with expertise in symptom management, palliative medicine, or both (if needed). If a patient does not undergo upfront surgery, the chemotherapy regimen that would have been selected for adjuvant therapy can be administered as neoadjuvant therapy to allow for deferred surgery.