Recommendations for head and neck surgical oncology practice in a setting of acute severe resource constraint during the COVID-19 pandemic: an international consensus

Affiliations

• ¹ Institute for Head and Neck Studies and Education, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK. Electronic address: [email protected].
• ² Head and Neck Unit, The Royal Marsden National Health Service Foundation Trust, London, UK.
• ³ Division of Head and Neck Surgery, Department of Otolaryngology, Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA, USA.
• ⁴ Department of Otolaryngology and Head and Neck Surgery, Walsall Manor Hospital, Walsall, UK.
• ⁵ Department of Otolaryngology, United Arab Emirates University, Alain, United Arab Emirates.
• ⁶ Department of Otorhinolaryngology and Head and Neck Surgery, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin, Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, China.
• ⁷ Department of Otorhinolaryngology and Head and Neck Surgery, Tata Memorial Hospital, Mumbai, India.
• ⁸ Department of Surgery, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, China.
• ⁹ Department of Ear, Nose and Throat Surgery, University of Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany.
• ¹⁰ Division of Otolaryngology, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa.
• ¹¹ Department of Otorhinolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, Odense University Hospital and University of Southern Denmark, Odense, Denmark.
• ¹² Department of Head and Neck Surgery, Poznan University of Medical Sciences, Greater Poland Cancer Centre, Poznan, Poland.
• ¹³ Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, Faculty of Medicine and Graduate School of Medicine, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan.
• ¹⁴ Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, Atilim University Faculty of Medicine, Ankara, Turkey.
• ¹⁵ Department of Head and Neck Surgery, National Cancer Centre and Singapore General Hospital, Singapore.
• ¹⁶ Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Yonsei University, Seoul, South Korea.
• ¹⁷ Department of Otolaryngology, Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, School of Medical Science, Kumasi, Ghana.
• ¹⁸ Department of Head and Neck Surgery, University of Sao Paulo Medical School, Sao Paulo, Brazil; Department of Head and Neck Surgery and Otorhinolaryngology, A C Camargo Cancer Center, Sao Paulo, Brazil.
• ¹⁹ Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, Zucker School of Medicine, Northwell Health Cancer Institute, New York, NY, USA.
• ²⁰ Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, Cochin Cancer Research Centre, Cochin, India.
• ²¹ First Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, Faculty of Medicine, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Athens, Greece.
• ²² Department of Head and Neck Surgery, University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, USA.
• ²³ Department of Otolaryngology and Head and Neck Surgery, Amsterdam University Medical Centre, Cancer Center Amsterdam, VU University, Amsterdam, Netherlands.
• ²⁴ Department of Otolaryngology and Head and Neck Surgery, St James's Hospital and The Royal Victoria Eye and Ear Hospital, Dublin, Ireland.
• ²⁵ Foundation IRCCS, Division of Medical Oncology, National Institute of Cancer of Milan, University of Milan, Milan, Italy.
• ²⁶ Department of Otolaryngology, National Taiwan University Hospital and College of Medicine, Taipei, Taiwan.
• ²⁷ Department of Otolaryngology Head and Neck Surgery, St Vincent's Hospital, Melbourne, VIC, Australia.
• ²⁸ Department of Otolaryngology and Head and Neck Surgery, Hôpital Européen Georges-Pompidou, Assistance Publique-Hôpitaux de Paris, Université Paris Descartes, Paris, France.
• ²⁹ Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery and Department of Oncology, University of Western Ontario, London, ON, Canada.
• ³⁰ Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, Princess Alexandra Hospital and Faculty of Medicine, University of Queensland, Brisbane, QLD, Australia.
• ³¹ Department of Otolaryngology and Head and Neck Surgery, Hospital Universitario Lucus Augusti, Lugo, Spain.
• ³² Department of Otolaryngology and Head and Neck Surgery, Winship Cancer Institute, Emory University, Atlanta, GA, USA.
• ³³ Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Maxillofacial and Thyroid Surgery, National Institute of Cancer of Milan, University of Milan, Milan, Italy.
• ³⁴ Department of Medical Oncology, Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre and Sir Peter MacCallum Department of Oncology, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, VIC, Australia.
• ³⁵ Department of Surgery, School of Medicine, Universidad de Antioquia-Hospital Universitario San Vicente Fundación, Medellin, Colombia; CEXCA Centro de Excelencia en Enfermedades de Cabeza y Cuello, Medellin, Colombia.
• ³⁶ Department of Otolaryngology and Head and Neck Surgery, Radboud University Medical Center, Nijmegen, Netherlands.
• ³⁷ Department of Clinical Oncology, The Christie National Health Service Foundation Trust, Manchester, UK; Division of Cancer Sciences, University of Manchester, Manchester, UK.
• ³⁸ Division of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, Dana-Farber and Brigham and Women's Cancer Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.
• ³⁹ Department of Head and Neck Surgery, Fudan University, Shanghai Cancer Center, Shanghai, China.
• ⁴⁰ Department of Radiation Oncology, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA.
• ⁴¹ Department of Head and Neck Surgery, National Cancer Center-Cancer Hospital, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and Peking Union Medical College, Beijing, China.
• ⁴² Department of Cancer Services, Princess Alexandra Hospital and Faculty of Medicine, University of Queensland, Brisbane, QLD, Australia.
• ⁴³ Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery and Department of Surgical Oncology, University Health Network, Toronto, ON, Canada; Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, Institute for Health Policy Management and Evaluation, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada.
• ⁴⁴ Department of Otolaryngology and Head and Neck Surgery, Lausanne University Hospital, Lausanne, Switzerland.