Practical indications for management of patients candidate to Interventional and Intraoperative Radiotherapy (Brachytherapy, IORT) during COVID-19 pandemic - A document endorsed by AIRO (Italian Association of Radiotherapy and Clinical Oncology) Interventional Radiotherapy Working Group

Andrea Vavassori; Luca Tagliaferri; Lisa Vicenzi; Andrea D'Aviero; Antonella Ciabattoni; Sergio Gribaudo; Loredana Lapadula; Gian Carlo Mattiucci; Lorenzo Vinante; Vitaliana De Sanctis; Cristiana Vidali; Rita Murri; Maria Antonietta Gambacorta; Marcello Mignogna; Barbara A Jereczek-Fossa; Vittorio Donato

doi:10.1016/j.radonc.2020.04.040

Practical indications for management of patients candidate to Interventional and Intraoperative Radiotherapy (Brachytherapy, IORT) during COVID-19 pandemic - A document endorsed by AIRO (Italian Association of Radiotherapy and Clinical Oncology) Interventional Radiotherapy Working Group

Radiother Oncol. 2020 Aug:149:73-77. doi: 10.1016/j.radonc.2020.04.040. Epub 2020 May 8.

Authors

Andrea Vavassori¹, Luca Tagliaferri², Lisa Vicenzi³, Andrea D'Aviero⁴, Antonella Ciabattoni⁵, Sergio Gribaudo⁶, Loredana Lapadula⁷, Gian Carlo Mattiucci⁸, Lorenzo Vinante⁹, Vitaliana De Sanctis¹⁰, Cristiana Vidali¹¹, Rita Murri¹², Maria Antonietta Gambacorta⁸, Marcello Mignogna¹³, Barbara A Jereczek-Fossa¹⁴, Vittorio Donato¹⁵

Affiliations

¹ Department of Radiotherapy, European Institute of Oncology IRCCS, Milano, Italy.
² UOC Radioterapia Oncologica, Dipartimento di Diagnostica per Immagini, Radioterapia Oncologica ed Ematologia, Fondazione Policlinico Universitario A. Gemelli, IRCCS, Roma, Italy. Electronic address: luca.tagliaferri@policlinicogemelli.it.
³ Radiotherapy Unit, Azienda Ospedaliero Universitaria Ospedali Riuniti Umberto I - G.M. Lancisi - G. Salesi, Ancona, Italy.
⁴ Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Roma, Italy.
⁵ U.O.C. di Radioterapia, P.O. San Filippo Neri, ASL Roma 1, Roma, Italy.
⁶ A.O.U. Città della Salute e della Scienza di Torino - Department of Oncology - P.O. Sant'Anna - S.S. Radioterapia, Torino, Italy.
⁷ Department of Radiation Oncology, Centro di Riferimento Oncologico Regionale, Rionero in Vulture (Potenza), Italy.
⁸ UOC Radioterapia Oncologica, Dipartimento di Diagnostica per Immagini, Radioterapia Oncologica ed Ematologia, Fondazione Policlinico Universitario A. Gemelli, IRCCS, Roma, Italy; Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Roma, Italy.
⁹ S.O.C. of Radiation Oncology, Istituto Nazionale Tumori Centro di Riferimento Oncologico IRCCS, Aviano (Pordenone), Italy.
¹⁰ Department of Medicine and Surgery and Translational Medicine, Radiotherapy Oncology, Sapienza University of Rome, S. Andrea Hospital, Roma, Italy.
¹¹ Interventional Radiotherapy AIRO Working Group - IntraOperative RadioTherapy, Trieste, Italy.
¹² Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Roma, Italy; Fondazione Policlinico Universitario A. Gemelli IRCCS, Dipartimento di Scienze di Laboratorio e Infettivologiche, Roma, Italy.
¹³ S.C. of Radiation Oncology, S. Luca Hospital, Lucca, Italy, Healthcare Company Tuscany Nord Ovest, Pisa, Italy.
¹⁴ Department of Radiotherapy, European Institute of Oncology IRCCS, Milano, Italy; Department of Oncology and Hemato-oncology, University of Milan, Milano, Italy.
¹⁵ U.O.C. of Radiation Oncology, Azienda Ospedaliera San Camillo-Forlanini, Roma, Italy.

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