Back to (new) normality-A CODRAL/AIRO-L survey on cancer radiotherapy in Lombardy during Italian COVID-19 phase 2.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Italy experienced one of the world's severest COVID-19 outbreak, with Lombardy being the most afflicted region. However, the imposed safety measures allowed to flatten the epidemic curve and hence to ease the restrictions and inaugurate, on the 4th of May 2020, the Italian phase (P) 2 of the pandemic. The present survey study, endorsed by CODRAL and AIRO-L, aimed to assess how radiotherapy (RT) departments in Lombardy have dealt with the recovery.

Materials and methods

A questionnaire dealing with the management of pandemic was developed online and sent to all CODRAL Directors on the 10th of June 2020. Answers were collected in full anonymity one week after.

Results

All the 33 contacted RT facilities (100%) responded to the survey. Despite the scale of the

SUBMITTER: Jereczek-Fossa BA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7641253 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature