Cancer care during the spread of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) in Italy: young oncologists' perspective

Matteo Lambertini; Angela Toss; Antonio Passaro; Carmen Criscitiello; Chiara Cremolini; Claudia Cardone; Fotios Loupakis; Giuseppe Viscardi; Icro Meattini; Maria Vittoria Dieci; Roberto Ferrara; Raffaele Giusti; Massimo Di Maio

doi:10.1136/esmoopen-2020-000759

Cancer care during the spread of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) in Italy: young oncologists' perspective

ESMO Open. 2020 Mar;5(2):e000759. doi: 10.1136/esmoopen-2020-000759.

Authors

Matteo Lambertini^{1

2}, Angela Toss³, Antonio Passaro⁴, Carmen Criscitiello⁵, Chiara Cremolini⁶, Claudia Cardone^{7

8}, Fotios Loupakis⁹, Giuseppe Viscardi^{8

10}, Icro Meattini^{11

12}, Maria Vittoria Dieci^{13

14}, Roberto Ferrara¹⁰, Raffaele Giusti¹⁵, Massimo Di Maio^{16

17}

Affiliations

¹ Department of Medical Oncology, U.O.C. Clinica di Oncologia Medica, IRCCS Ospedale Policlinico San Martino, Genova, Italy [email protected].
² Department of Internal Medicine and Medical Specialties (DiMI), School of Medicine, University of Genova, Genova, Italy.
³ Department of Oncology and Hematology, Azienda Ospedaliero-Universitaria di Modena, Modena, Italy.
⁴ Division of Thoracic Oncology, IEO, European Institute of Oncology IRCCS, Milan, Italy.
⁵ New Drugs and Early Drug Development for Innovative Therapies Division, IEO, European Institute of Oncology IRCCS, Milan, Italy.
⁶ Department of Translational Research and New Technologies in Medicine and Surgery, University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy.
⁷ Clinical Trials Unit, Istituto Nazionale per lo Studio e la Cura dei Tumori 'Fondazione Giovanni Pascale' - IRCCS, Naples, Italy.
⁸ Department of Precision Medicine, Università degli Studi della Campania 'Luigi Vanvitelli', Naples, Italy.
⁹ Department of Oncology, Unit of Oncology 1, Oncologic Institute of Veneto IRCCS, Italy.
¹⁰ Department of Medical Oncology, Thoracic Oncology Unit, Fondazione IRCCS Istituto Nazionale dei Tumori, Milan, Italy.
¹¹ Department of Experimental and Clinical Biomedical Sciences 'M. Serio', University of Florence, Florence, Italy.
¹² Department of Radiation Oncology, Azienda Ospedaliero-Universitaria Careggi, Florence, Italy.
¹³ Medical Oncology 2, Veneto Institute of Oncology IOV-IRCCS, Padova, Italy.
¹⁴ Department of Surgery, Oncology and Gastroenterology, University of Padova, Padova, Italy.
¹⁵ Medical Oncology Unit, Sant'Andrea Hospital of Rome, Rome, Italy.
¹⁶ Department of Oncology, University of Turin, Turin, Italy.
¹⁷ Medical Oncology, Mauriziano Hospital, Turin, Italy.

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Comment

MeSH terms

Betacoronavirus
COVID-19
China
Coronavirus Infections
Coronavirus*
Humans
Italy
Oncologists*
Pandemics
Pneumonia, Viral
SARS-CoV-2
Severe acute respiratory syndrome-related coronavirus*