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Sara Pilotto
Supplementary_Material_-_online_only – Supplemental material for Symptomatic COVID-19 in advanced-cancer patients treated with immune-checkpoint inhibitors: prospective analysis from a multicentre observational trial by FICOG
Supplemental material, Supplementary_Material_-_online_only for Symptomatic COVID-19 in advanced-cancer patients treated with immune-checkpoint inhibitors: prospective analysis from a multicentre observational trial by FICOG by Melissa Bersanelli, Diana Giannarelli, Ugo De Giorgi, Sandro Pignata, Massimo Di Maio, Elena Verzoni, Alberto Clemente, Valentina Guadalupi, Diego Signorelli, Marcello Tiseo, Raffaele Giusti, Marco Filetti, Marilena Di Napoli, Lorenzo Calvetti, Alessandro Cappetta, Paola Ermacora, Diego Zara, Fausto Barbieri, Cinzia Baldessari, Vieri Scotti, Francesca Mazzoni, Antonello Veccia, Pamela Francesca Guglielmini, Marco Maruzzo, Ernesto Rossi, Francesco Grossi, Chiara Casad…
Symptomatic COVID-19 in advanced-cancer patients treated with immune-checkpoint inhibitors. Prospective analysis from a multicentre observational trial by FICOG
Background:This prospective, multicentre, observational INVIDIa-2 study is investigating the clinical efficacy of influenza vaccination in advanced-cancer patients receiving immune-checkpoint inhibitors (ICIs), enrolled in 82 Italian centres, from October 2019 to January 2020. The primary endpoint was the incidence of influenza-like illness (ILI) until 30 April 2020. All the ILI episodes, laboratory tests, complications, hospitalizations and pneumonitis were recorded. Therefore, the study prospectively recorded all the COVID-19 ILI events.Patients and methods:Patients were included in this non-prespecified COVID-19 analysis, if alive on 31 January 2020, when the Italian government declared …
Listening understanding and acting (lung): focus on communicational issue in thoracic oncology.
Background: In the field of oncological assistance, nowadays we have to deal with a complex scenario where patients got used to obtain a huge amount of information through internet or social media and to apply them in performing their health-related decisions. This landscape requires that clinicians become able to handle therapeutical approaches and adequate skills in communication tools to satisfy the current needs. Our project aimed to build a communication model based on clinical oncologists’ real experiences in order to find a simple way to share with patients all the innovative therapeutical opportunities today available in lung cancer. The final goal is to design a flexible and person…