COVID-19 coronavirus and cancer
The intent of this page is to gather cancer-specific information relevant to COVID-19, the disease caused by SARS-CoV-2 virus.
General information relevant to cancer patients
- What cancer patients need to know (Fred Hutch)
- What Cancer Patients, Survivors, and Caregivers Need to Know about the Coronavirus
Hematology/Oncology meetings
Canceled
- AMIA Informatics Summit (3/23/2020 - 3/26/2020, Houston, TX) - CANCELLED
Postponed
- 1st Translational Research Conference: Chronic Lymphocytic Leukaemia (3/20/2020 to 3/22/2020, Paris, France) - POSTPONED until November 17-19
- NCCN Annual Conference (3/20/2020 to 3/22/2020, Orlando, FL) - POSTPONED until TBA
- Summit on National and Global Cancer Health Disparity (4/3/2020 to 4/4/200, Seattle, WA) - POSTPONED until Fall 2020
Rescheduled as virtual meeting
- ENETS Conference for the Diagnosis and Treatment of Neuroendocrine Tumor Disease - VIRTUAL MEETING
Still happening as planned
- AACR Annual Meeting (4/24/2020 to 4/29/2020, San Diego, CA) - STILL PLANNED
- ASCO Annual Meeting (5/29/2020 to 6/2/2020, Chicago, IL) - STILL PLANNED
General information
- Johns Hopkins CSSE Coronavirus Tracker
- COVID-19 Coronavirus tracker, with case-by-case descriptions (1point3acres.com)
- CDC.gov COVID-19 Coronavirus information
- Proposed initial diagnostic and management workflow for potential COVID-19 cases given limited testing capacity (Twitter @srrezaie, 3/8/2020)
- Perhaps without CT chest for everyone (leave up to clinician judgement) and presume COVID-19 based on other clinical criteria and history; use COVID-19 RT-PCR when available to start rule out. -PeterYang 02:23, 9 March 2020 (EDT)
- Estimate of mortality rate by age (Twitter @DorsaAmir, 3/7/2020)
- Influenza vs. COVID-19 mortality rate by age (Twitter @AshokKumarSheo8, 3/7/2020)
- Ars Technica summary of COVID-19 information (Arstechnica.com, 3/8/2020)