Darcie Green, Shaji K. Kumar, Donna Black, and the NCCN COVID-19 Vaccination Advisory Committee received of the 2024 National Comprehensive Cancer Network awards.
The COVID-19 pandemic was associated with significant changes in diagnoses of all cancer types in 2020, with a 14.4% overall decline in the number of reported cancer cases in cancer centers accredited by the Commission on Cancer (CoC) compared with the prior year.
A study demonstrated that viral immune evasion enabled breakthrough infections of COVID-19 in patients with lung cancer, highlighting the importance of effective monitoring mechanisms, such as anti-N serology, to track infection rates in specific vulnerable populations.
A “weighted” lottery program designed to ensure that people living in the most disadvantaged U.S. neighborhoods would be offered a scarce, potentially life-saving medication proved feasible in a large health system. The approach can improve equity in receipt of the drug by people disproportionately affected by disease, according to an analysis published today in JAMA Health Forum by University of Pittsburgh and UPMC scientist-clinicians.