Health care workers at Nebraska Medical Center began using Infectious Aerosol Capture Masks to capture exhaled aerosolized particles at their source from patients.
FDA issued an emergency use authorization for a blood purification system to treat patients, ages 18 and over, with confirmed COVID-19 admitted to the intensive care units with confirmed or imminent respiratory failure.
Six non-profit adolescent and young adult cancer advocacy organizations have launched CovidAYACancer.org, a resource for young people with cancer and the health professionals who treat them.
How has the COVID-19 pandemic affected oncology?
While the news these days is rightly focused on hospitals and the government fighting public enemy number one, aka COVID-19 (the novel coronavirus), independent community oncology practices continue to treat and comfort patients who are at war with that insidious disease we call cancer.
As clinicians in a medical specialty that relies on evidence to guide treatment plans for individuals with cancer, we face an unfortunate dearth of data to help steer us during the coronavirus pandemic.
American Cancer Society announces a wave of furloughs and layoffs as COVID-19 constricts fundraising
The American Cancer Society earlier this week announced immediate furloughs and layoffs of its staff citing “a significant financial hardship” triggered by the novel coronavirus.
To prevent the spread of COVID-19, oncologists are either limiting or canceling adjuvant care, in effect staging a population-level experiment.
NCI is building a nationwide cohort of cancer patients with COVID-19 at over 1,000 sites across the institute’s clinical trials networks and at NCI-designated cancer centers.
