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Cancer radiation can safely proceed during COVID-19 pandemic. – Brinkwire

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Cancer patients who need radiation therapy shouldn’t let fear of COVID-19 delay their treatment, one hospital study suggests.
Over six days in May, during the height of the pandemic in New Jersey, surfaces in the radiation oncology department at Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital in New Brunswick, N.J., were tested for COVID-19 before cleaning.
Of 128 samples taken in patient and staff areas and from equipment, including objects used by a patient with COVID-19, not one was positive for S…

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