https://socictopen.socict.org/files/original/adae3c9104498e79881788b006c5a2bc.pdf 7b05d4103b391d1572bb99d9898ca542 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Coronavirus Description An account of the resource Dominio científico: Coronavirus Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource COVID-19 and radiation oncology: the experience of a two-phase plan within a single institution in central Italy Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Luciana Caravatta, Consuelo Rosa, Maria Bernadette Di Sciascio, Andrea Tavella Scaringi, Angelo Di Pilla, Lucia Anna Ursini, Maria Taraborrelli, Annamaria Vinciguerra, Antonietta Augurio, Monica Di Tommaso, Marianna Trignani, Marianna Nuzzo, Maria Daniela Falco, Andrea De Nicola, Nico Adorante, Fabiola Patani, Giuseppe Centofanti, Lucrezia Gasparini, David Fasciolo, Fiorella Cristina Di Guglielmo, Cecilia Bonfiglio, Marzia Borgia, Gabriella Caravaggio, Stefano Marcucci, Consalvo Turchi, Domenico Mancinelli, Stephanie Sartori, Thomas Schael, Angelo Muraglia, Sergio Caputi, Claudio D’Amario, Nicoletta Verì, Domenico Genovesi Description An account of the resource Abstract Background COVID-19 in Italy has led to the need to reorganize hospital protocols with a significant risk of interruption to cancer treatment programs. In this report, we will focus on a management model covering the two phases of the COVID-19 emergency, namely lockdown-phase I and post-lockdown-phase II. Methods The following steps were taken in the two phases: workload during visits and radiotherapy planning, use of dedicated routes, measures for triage areas, management of suspected and positive COVID-19 cases, personal protective equipment, hospital environments and intra-institutional meetings and tumor board management. Due to the guidelines set out by the Ministry of Health, oncological follow-up visits were interrupted during the lockdown-phase I; consequently, we set about contacting patients by telephone, with laboratory and instrumental exams being viewed via telematics. During the post-lockdown-phase II, the oncological follow-up clinic reopened, with two shifts operating daily. Results By comparing our radiotherapy activity from March 9 to May 4 2019 with the same period in 2020 during full phase I of the COVID-19 emergency, similar results were achieved. First radiotherapy visits, Simulation Computed Tomography and Linear Accelerator treatments amounted to 123, 137 and 151 in 2019 compared with 121, 135 and 170 in 2020 respectively. There were no cases of COVID-19 positivity recorded either in patients or in healthcare professionals, who were all negative to the swab tests performed. Conclusion During both phases of the COVID-19 emergency, the planned model used in our own experience guaranteed both continuity in radiotherapy treatments whilst neither reducing workload nor interrupting treatment and, as such, it ensured the safety of cancer patients, hospital environments and staff. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2020 Subject The topic of the resource coronavirus, covid-19, Pandemic, SARS-CoV-2, Radiation oncology, radiotherapy Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context 10.1186/s13014-020-01670-9 Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Biotemas Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant Medical physics. Medical radiology. Nuclear medicine, Neoplasms. Tumors. Oncology. Including cancer and carcinogens