key: cord-1034528-1ebm4x5a
authors: Yu, Dongdong; Hu, Weiguo; Chen, Lulu; Fu, Zhenming; Song, Qibin; Li, Xiangpan
title: Effect of radiotherapy interruption due to COVID-19 outbreak
date: 2020-10-11
journal: Radiother Oncol
DOI: 10.1016/j.radonc.2020.09.055
sha: 3e27f6e273adfad0088ad2f09699a1daee2c3962
doc_id: 1034528
cord_uid: 1ebm4x5a

nan

The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on cancer death was reported recently [1] .Wuhan where COVID-19 broke out has been critically hit [2] [3] . The emergence has affected every aspect of health care, including the delivery of standard radiotherapy to patients with cancer. Those patients was facing disruption because of concerns about their susceptibility to the serious risks of COVID-19, travel restrictions, and the shortage of personnel, beds and personal protective equipment, and it has been reported that many cancer patients in hospitals of Wuhan got into such difficulties, so the number of patients receiving radiotherapy significantly decreased during the pandemic. [4] [5] The radiotherapy center of Renmin Hospital of Wuhan University (RHWU) was shut down on January 24, and reopened until March 9, 2020.Thus, many patients were unplanned interrupted of radiotherapy during this period. Our survey of 140 consecutive patients in RHWU from March 9 to June 30, 2020, summarizes the clinical characteristics and outcome of these patients whose radiotherapy interrupted for 45 days or longer. 

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