Looking Back: International Practice Patterns in Breast Radiation Oncology From a Case-Based Survey Across 54 Countries During the First Surge of the COVID-19 Pandemic.
Oluwadamilola T OladeruSamantha A DunnJian LiCharlotte E ColesChikako YamauchiJee Suk ChangHung Chun Skye ChengOrit Kaidar PersonIcro MeattiniDuvern RamiahAnna M KirbyTarek HijalGustavo Nader MartaPhilip PoortmansJosep Isern-VerdumYvonne ZissiadisBirgitte Vrou OffersenTamer RefaatKhaled ElsayadHussam HijaziNatalia DenginaYazid BelkacemiFeng Deng LuoShun LuColleen GriffinMaya CollinsPhoebe RyanDalia LariosLaura E WarrenRinaa S PungliaJulia S WongDaphna Y SpiegelReshma JagsiAlphonse G TaghianJennifer R BellonAlice Y HoPublished in: JCO global oncology (2023)
Early in the COVID-19 pandemic, significant changes in global RT practice patterns for BC were introduced. The impact of published results from the FAST FORWARD trial supporting ultrahypofractionation likely confounded the interpretation of the pandemic's independent influence on RT delivery.