Crowdsourcing a crisis response for COVID-19 in oncology

Aakash Desai; Jeremy Warner; Nicole Kuderer; Mike Thompson; Corrie Painter; Gary Lyman; Gilberto Lopes

doi:10.1038/s43018-020-0065-z

Crowdsourcing a crisis response for COVID-19 in oncology

Nat Cancer. 2020;1(5):473-476. doi: 10.1038/s43018-020-0065-z. Epub 2020 Apr 21.

Authors

Aakash Desai¹, Jeremy Warner^{2

3}, Nicole Kuderer⁴, Mike Thompson⁵, Corrie Painter⁶, Gary Lyman^{7

8}, Gilberto Lopes⁹

Affiliations

¹ Department of Medicine, University of Connecticut, Farmington, CT USA.
² Department of Medicine, Division of Hematology and Oncology, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee USA.
³ Department of Biomedical Informatics, Vanderbilt University, Nashville,, TN USA.
⁴ Advanced Cancer Research Group, Seattle, WA USA.
⁵ Aurora Research Institute, Aurora Health Care, Milwaukee, WI USA.
⁶ Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT, Cambridge, MA USA.
⁷ Department of Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, WA USA.
⁸ Hutchinson Institute for Cancer Outcomes Research, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, WA USA.
⁹ Division of Hematology and Medical Oncology, Department of Medicine, Miller School of Medicine, University of Miami, Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center, Miami, FL USA.

PMID: 32346676
DOI: 10.1038/s43018-020-0065-z

Abstract

Crowdsourcing efforts are currently underway to collect and analyze data from patients with cancer who are affected by the COVID-19 pandemic. These community-led initiatives will fill key knowledge gaps to tackle crucial clinical questions on the complexities of infection with the causative coronavirus SARS-Cov-2 in the large, heterogeneous group of vulnerable patients with cancer.

Keywords: Cancer; SARS-CoV-2; Scientific community.