As the District of Columbia, Maryland, and Virginia prepare to loosen pandemic restrictions and reopen economies, hospital networks and academic cancer centers brace for a potential uptick in SARS-CoV-2 infections.
Nobody knew how to even begin to predict the number of people who would register for the first-ever virtual annual meeting of the American Association for Cancer Research.
The COVID-19 pandemic will change the structure and economics of clinical care and clinical trials in cancer, said Howard “Skip” Burris, president of clinical operations and chief medical officer of Sarah Cannon, the Cancer Institute of HCA Healthcare.
Patients with lung cancer and a history of pneumonitis are more likely to develop treatment-associated pneumonitis later, especially in the course of receiving immune checkpoint inhibitor therapy, according to a new study by Syapse, FDA, and Advocate Aurora Health.
At least for now, Feist-Weiller Cancer Center at the Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center at Shreveport has repurposed the three vans that were used to provide cancer screening and essential health care to medically underserved communities.
After a series of global epidemics, Don Berry has spent the past several years preparing for a serious pandemic that would be caused by yet another viral pathogen.
News coverage of the COVID-19 pandemic in New York has lent urgency to social distancing efforts in San Antonio and South Texas, likely flattening the curve.