Cancer and COVID-19 - potentially deleterious effects of delaying radiotherapy. Academic Article uri icon

Overview

abstract

  • Radiotherapy can be safely delivered during the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, often through use of hypofractionated regimens, which minimize the number of visits to treatment centres while also avoiding potentially detrimental delays in the delivery of cancer care.

publication date

  • June 1, 2020

Research

keywords

  • Breast Neoplasms
  • Coronavirus Infections
  • Head and Neck Neoplasms
  • Lung Neoplasms
  • Pneumonia, Viral

Identity

PubMed Central ID

  • PMC7184542

Scopus Document Identifier

  • 85084119305

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

  • 10.1016/S1470-2045(15)70168-3

PubMed ID

  • 32341524

Additional Document Info

volume

  • 17

issue

  • 6