Abstract
Response of the Istituto Nazionale Tumori of Milan Head & Neck Cancer Unit to the COVID-19 outbreak
Highlights
While general hospitals across our region struggled to organize the response, which naturally focused on converting near-all activities to assist COVID-19 patients, our Institute’s mission to treat oncologic patients was preserved through measures implemented over a course of 2 weeks
A surveillance department within our center was created in order to screen oncologic patients with symptoms of infection and to contain already admitted
* Correspondence: Carlo.Resteghini@istitutotumori.mi.it 1Head and Neck Cancer Medical Oncology Unit, Fondazione IRCCS Istituto Nazionale dei Tumori Milan, Milan, Italy Full list of author information is available at the end of the article subjects who developed the disease
Summary
While general hospitals across our region struggled to organize the response, which naturally focused on converting near-all activities to assist COVID-19 patients, our Institute’s mission to treat oncologic patients was preserved through measures implemented over a course of 2 weeks. Response of the Istituto Nazionale Tumori of Milan Head & Neck Cancer Unit to the COVID-19 outbreak Carlo Resteghini1*, Paola Maggioni1, Vito Di Martino1, Lisa Licitra1,2 on behalf of Head and Neck Cancer Medical Oncology Unit, Fondazione IRCCS Istituto Nazionale dei Tumori Milan, Italy
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