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Editorial
. 2020 Apr;5(2):e000779.
doi: 10.1136/esmoopen-2020-000779.

Radiation therapy during the coronavirus disease 2019 (covid-19) pandemic in Italy: a view of the nation's young oncologists

Icro Meattini  1   2 , Pierfrancesco Franco  3 , Liliana Belgioia  4   5 , Luca Boldrini  6 , Angela Botticella  7 , Maria Carmen De Santis  8 , Giulia Marvaso  9   10 , Giampaolo Montesi  11 , Silvana Parisi  12 , Luca Triggiani  13 , Matteo Lambertini  14   15 , Lorenzo Livi  16   2
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Editorial

Radiation therapy during the coronavirus disease 2019 (covid-19) pandemic in Italy: a view of the nation's young oncologists

Icro Meattini et al. ESMO Open. 2020 Apr.
No abstract available

Keywords: COVID-19; clinical oncology; radiation therapy; recommendations; young oncologists.

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