Early data from China and Italy confirm that cancer patients are at higher risk for developing severe adverse events and dying after testing positive for the novel coronavirus.
As the crisis triggered by the COVID-19 pandemic deepens, the two separate, unequal societies that make up the United States of America are equally frightened, bewildered, and unsure of what comes next.
The worldwide spread of the coronavirus (COVID-19) presents unprecedented challenges to the cancer care delivery system.
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.
On March 11, Jensen, who is also William R. Jewell Distinguished Kansas Masonic Professor and professor of pathology and laboratory medicine, anatomy and cell biology, cancer biology and molecular biosciences, focused on COVID-19.
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.
The COVID-19 pandemic will affect every aspect of cancer care and cancer research.
This page is no longer maintained. For The Cancer Letter’s full coverage of COVID-19, click here. Below is a list of meetings that were canceled at the beginning of the pandemic, last updated March 19, 2020, 1:12 P.M. EST Meeting cancellations, postponements, changes: An up-to-date list of oncology conferences
This story is part of The Cancer Letter's ongoing coverage of COVID-19's impact on oncology. A full list of our coverage, as well as the latest meeting cancellations, is available here.As COVID-19 has now officially been declared a source of the pandemic, with increasing incidence across the nation, it is without question that the needs of patients with particular vulnerabilities should garner particular attention.
