Table 8.

Prioritization of lung cancer patients and factor for triaging of patients

Prioritization of lung cancer patients			Top 5 factors for triaging patients across all radiotherapy cases
Rank	Case∗	Relative Priority Compared All Other Types Cancer Cases in Department∗∗
1.	Stage III NSCLC	Very high/high (71% consensus)	1. Potential for cure
2.	LS-SCLC SCLC	Very high/high (78% consensus)	2. Relative benefit of RT vs. other treatment options
3.	Stage I NSCLC	High/average (near consensus: 65%)	3. Active COVID-19 infection (absence thereof)
4.	Palliative NSCLC	No consensus. Widely dispersed responses.	4. Life expectancy
5.	PORT NSCLC	Low/very low (68% consensus)	5. Performance Status
6.	SCLC PCI	Low/very low (81% consensus)

^∗The six cases were ranked, with 6 points given for a #1 ranking, 5 points for #2, etc, and the average number of points was determined. The average scores, in order of ranking as listed in the table, were 5.2, 4.9, 4.1, 3.0, 2.1 and 1.7, respectively.

^∗∗Respondents were asked to prioritize each case as very high, high, average, low, or very low, corresponding to quintiles of priority (e.g. very high = top 20%, very low = bottom 20%), compared to all types of cancers treated in their department. Adjacent categories were combined to determine consensus.