Running a Radiation Oncology Department at the Time of Coronavirus: An Italian Experience

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Starting from Wuhan, China, SARS-CoV-2 has been a catastrophic epidemic involving many countries worldwide. After China, Italy has been heavily affected, and severe measures to limit the spread of the virus have been taken in the last weeks. Radiation oncology departments must guarantee optimal canc...

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Autores principales: Krengli, Marco, Ferrara, Eleonora, Mastroleo, Federico, Brambilla, Marco, Ricardi, Umberto
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Published by Elsevier Inc. on behalf of American Society for Radiation Oncology. 2020
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Brief Opinion
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7598890/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33145459
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.adro.2020.10.002
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Ferrara, Eleonora
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Brambilla, Marco
Ricardi, Umberto
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spelling pubmed-75988902020-11-02 Running a Radiation Oncology Department at the Time of Coronavirus: An Italian Experience Krengli, Marco Ferrara, Eleonora Mastroleo, Federico Brambilla, Marco Ricardi, Umberto Adv Radiat Oncol Brief Opinion Starting from Wuhan, China, SARS-CoV-2 has been a catastrophic epidemic involving many countries worldwide. After China, Italy has been heavily affected, and severe measures to limit the spread of the virus have been taken in the last weeks. Radiation oncology departments must guarantee optimal cancer treatments even in such a challenging scenario of an ongoing aggressive epidemic. Adopted preventive measures and recommendations are highlighted for patients, professionals, and clinical operations to minimize the risk of infection while safely treating patients with cancer. Published by Elsevier Inc. on behalf of American Society for Radiation Oncology. 2020-11 2020-10-29 /pmc/articles/PMC7598890/ /pubmed/33145459 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.adro.2020.10.002 Text en © 2020 Published by Elsevier Inc. on behalf of American Society for Radiation Oncology. Since January 2020 Elsevier has created a COVID-19 resource centre with free information in English and Mandarin on the novel coronavirus COVID-19. The COVID-19 resource centre is hosted on Elsevier Connect, the company's public news and information website. Elsevier hereby grants permission to make all its COVID-19-related research that is available on the COVID-19 resource centre - including this research content - immediately available in PubMed Central and other publicly funded repositories, such as the WHO COVID database with rights for unrestricted research re-use and analyses in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for free by Elsevier for as long as the COVID-19 resource centre remains active.
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