COVID-19 and radiation oncology: the experience of a two-phase plan within a single institution in central Italy

Abstract Background COVID-19 in Italy has led to the need to reorganize hospital protocols with a significant risk of interruption to cancer treatment programs. In this report, we will focus on a management model covering the two phases of the COVID-19 emergency, namely lockdown-phase I and post-loc...

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Main Authors: Luciana Caravatta, Consuelo Rosa, Maria Bernadette Di Sciascio, Andrea Tavella Scaringi, Angelo Di Pilla, Lucia Anna Ursini, Maria Taraborrelli, Annamaria Vinciguerra, Antonietta Augurio, Monica Di Tommaso, Marianna Trignani, Marianna Nuzzo, Maria Daniela Falco, Andrea De Nicola, Nico Adorante, Fabiola Patani, Giuseppe Centofanti, Lucrezia Gasparini, David Fasciolo, Fiorella Cristina Di Guglielmo, Cecilia Bonfiglio, Marzia Borgia, Gabriella Caravaggio, Stefano Marcucci, Consalvo Turchi, Domenico Mancinelli, Stephanie Sartori, Thomas Schael, Angelo Muraglia, Sergio Caputi, Claudio D’Amario, Nicoletta Verì, Domenico Genovesi
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2020-09-01
Series:Radiation Oncology
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Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s13014-020-01670-9