The COVID-19 and Cancer Consortium: A Collaborative Effort to Understand the Effects of COVID-19 on Patients with Cancer

Samuel M Rubinstein; John A Steinharter; Jeremy Warner; Brian I Rini; Solange Peters; Toni K Choueiri

doi:10.1016/j.ccell.2020.04.018

The COVID-19 and Cancer Consortium: A Collaborative Effort to Understand the Effects of COVID-19 on Patients with Cancer

Cancer Cell. 2020 Jun 8;37(6):738-741. doi: 10.1016/j.ccell.2020.04.018. Epub 2020 Apr 29.

Authors

Samuel M Rubinstein¹, John A Steinharter², Jeremy Warner³, Brian I Rini¹, Solange Peters⁴, Toni K Choueiri⁵

Affiliations

¹ Department of Medicine, Division of Hematology and Oncology, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN, USA.
² Department of Medical Oncology, Lank Center for Genitourinary Oncology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, MA, USA.
³ Department of Medicine, Division of Hematology and Oncology, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN, USA; Department of Biomedical Informatics, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN, USA.
⁴ Oncology Department, Lausanne University Hospital, Lausanne, Switzerland.
⁵ Department of Medical Oncology, Lank Center for Genitourinary Oncology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, MA, USA; Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA. Electronic address: toni_choueiri@dfci.harvard.edu.

Abstract

National and international consortia will play a key role in understanding the effects of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic on cancer patients. The COVID-19 and Cancer Consortium (CCC19) aims to collect and analyze observational data at scale to inform clinical practice in real-time.

MeSH terms

Betacoronavirus / isolation & purification*
Betacoronavirus / pathogenicity
COVID-19
Canada
Clinical Decision-Making
Coronavirus Infections / complications
Coronavirus Infections / epidemiology
Coronavirus Infections / therapy*
Coronavirus Infections / virology
Crowdsourcing
Drug Repositioning
Humans
International Cooperation
Intersectoral Collaboration
Medical Oncology / organization & administration*
Neoplasms / complications
Neoplasms / therapy*
Pandemics
Pneumonia, Viral / complications
Pneumonia, Viral / epidemiology
Pneumonia, Viral / therapy*
Pneumonia, Viral / virology
Registries*
SARS-CoV-2
Spain
United States