Will patients who receive radiation to a large mediastinal nodal field have an increased susceptibility to COVID-19?

While the actual infection of COVID-19 has more to do with hygiene, social distancing, and prevention such as drugs or vaccines, the susceptibility for the patient to develop symptomatic progression of COVID-19, once infected, has a strong theoretical possibility. The factors that impact severe lymp...

"May you live in interesting times" (purported Chinese curse). Right now we are adding a new element to our thoughts on therapeutic ratio for patients. This will depend on so many variables including patient age, her/his underlying comorbidities, the density of COVID infections in your city, the sta...

Both large and even quite small XRT fields, and volumetric arcs as well, produce reduction in peripheral lymphocyte count. We all learned that radiotherapy “immunosuppressive.” Without definitive evidence, we assume these two observations are related. Are they? I don’t know. At the time of COVID-19,...