Early data from two randomized phase III studies of the antiviral drug remdesivir make it a viable treatment for COVID-19.
AACR data from China and Europe amount to “two different messages” for cancer patients with COVID-19
Are COVID-19 patients with cancer at a greater risk of dying than non-cancer patients? Depends on whom you ask.
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.
Community oncology practices in the United States are reeling from a sharp decrease in business—whether you look at new patients, chemotherapy visits, or non-chemo visits—the result of reduced activity and stay-at-home orders across the country to mitigate the spread of SARS-CoV-2.
In the past, few patients had Oliver Sartor’s personal cell phone number.
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.
The COVID-19 pandemic has created a host of diagnostic, treatment, and follow-up problems for patients with cancer of all types, and this is particularly true for patients with lung cancer, their families, and health care providers.
In late December, rumors regarding a dangerous virus that originated in a seafood market in Wuhan, China started spreading across the world. At the time, all we knew was that the virus resembled the severe acute respiratory syndrome, better known as SARS, and that it was aggressive and deadly.
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.
