COVID-19 coronavirus and cancer
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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
Information for healthcare professionals
- American Society for Transplantation and Cellular Therapy (ASTCT) Interim guidelines for COVID-19 management in hematopoetic cell transplant and cellular therapy patients
Hematology/Oncology meetings
Canceled
- AMIA Informatics Summit (3/23/2020 - 3/26/2020, Houston, TX) - CANCELLED
- SGO (Society of Gynecologic Oncology) 2020 Annual Meeting on Women’s Cancer, (3/28/2020 to 3/31/2020, Toronto, Canada) - CANCELLED (may be rescheduled for in-person or virtual meeting)
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
- COVID-19 Coronavirus tracker for United States and Canada, with case-by-case descriptions (1point3acres.com)
- Johns Hopkins CSSE Worldwide Coronavirus Tracker
- 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)
- 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)