Abstract
Proton Therapy in a Pandemic: An Operational Response to the COVID-19 Crisis.
Highlights
As an academic proton therapy center, our current challenge is to balance delivery of cutting-edge cancer treatments with appropriate mitigation and management of COVID19 risk for both staff and patients
To facilitate communication across centers about best practices during these challenging times, this piece will outline our operational response to the pandemic caused by the coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 [1], with specific consideration of issues facing out-of-hospital proton therapy centers
Experience from other centers in areas of high community spread [6] have suggested that maintaining adequate radiation therapist (RTT) staffing would be the most critical component of maintaining our ability to deliver proton therapy during the pandemic
Summary
As an academic proton therapy center, our current challenge is to balance delivery of cutting-edge cancer treatments with appropriate mitigation and management of COVID19 risk for both staff and patients. To facilitate communication across centers about best practices during these challenging times, this piece will outline our operational response to the pandemic caused by the coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 [1], with specific consideration of issues facing out-of-hospital proton therapy centers. This will provide a starting point for response to future disasters
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