The Sidney Kimmel Cancer Center at Thomas Jefferson University has been developing a scalable telehealth program long before the spread of SARS-CoV-2 in the United States.
Hollander: Fix telehealth infrastructure—or America will be just as unprepared for the next pandemic
As U.S. health systems switch to telehealth to connect with patients—via phone calls and online video conferencing—during the COVID-19 pandemic, providers are quickly learning that the lack of a national infrastructure for telehealth is making it difficult to reach patients.
When The Cancer Letter spoke with Giuseppe Curigliano last week, he described the atmosphere in Italy as “spectral.”
Preparing for a surge in COVID-19 cases this week, the Johns Hopkins health system is relying on the recently-activated Johns Hopkins Medicine Incident Command Center to prioritize the institution’s patient care and research functions and coordinate the opening of testing tents and drive-through testing sites.
The Cancer Letter spoke with leaders at Seattle Cancer Care Alliance/Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center MD Anderson Cancer Center, University of California, Los Angeles, and Robert H. Lurie Comprehensive Cancer Center of Northwestern University to gauge the impact of coronavirus.
To get a sense of how COVID-19 will affect oncology in the U.S., The Cancer Letter called Giuseppe Curigliano, associate professor of Medical Oncology at University of Milano and the head of the Division of Early Drug Development at European Institute of Oncology, Italy, who is based in the Lombardy region—the epicenter of the outbreak.
If the mortality rate for lung cancer is starting to fall of a cliff in part because of treatment effect—contributing to more than a third of the 2.2% decline in overall cancer mortality from 2016 to 2017—is that signal showing up on the radar of NCI's Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results (SEER) Program?
Rebecca Siegel doesn't usually pay attention to one-year drops in data trends, but the 2.2% decline in overall cancer mortality from 2016 to 2017—driven primarily by lung cancer—seemed too big to ignore.
On Feb. 1, Thomas J. Lynch will report to work as president and director of Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center.
Contrary to declarations by Moffitt Cancer Center, Thomas Sellers, the institution's ousted director, was not involved in the Thousand Talents program sponsored by the People's Republic of China, said a Florida attorney who represents Sellers in preparing a lawsuit against the cancer center.