Oncology Perspective

• COVID-19 Diary Day 5: Facing Deployment Don Dizon talks with colleagues about the anxiety surrounding their pending deployment in the 'war against COVID-19.'
  Medscape Oncology, April 09, 2020
• COVID-19 Diary Day 4: Am I Losing My Humanity? Already? Watching patients die alone. Resisting the urge to check email during a video consult. Oncologist Don Dizon worries that COVID-19's 'unsettling' restrictions may have lasting effects on the art of medicine.
  Medscape Oncology, April 09, 2020
• COVID-19 Diary Day 3: Facing the Prospect of Dying Alone After planning for staffing and patient management at his institution, oncologist Don Dizon reflects on his personal risk in managing COVID-19-positive patients.
  Medscape Oncology, April 07, 2020
• COVID-19 Diary Day 2: Insomnia -- The Mark of Medical Practice Don Dizon shares how he is dealing with the pandemic, knowing that despite COVID-19, people still need care, chemotherapy needs to be administered, and new patients are still coming in for evaluation.
  Medscape Oncology, April 07, 2020
• Do COVID-19 Vent Protocols Need a Second Look?   How what Cameron Kyle-Sidell, MD, saw in an NYC ICU prompted him to re-examine COVID-19 ventilator protocols
  WebMD, April 06, 2020
• Colorectal Cancer: Proposed Guidelines for the COVID-19 Era Drs David and Rachel Kerr of the University of Oxford present suggested guidance for the management of patients during the novel coronavirus pandemic.
  Medscape Oncology, April 03, 2020
• COVID-19 Diary Day 1: Something Wicked This Way Comes In his first COVID-19 diary entry, oncologist Don Dizon discusses the persistent anxiety that healthcare workers face as the coronavirus outbreak makes its way toward their centers.
  Medscape Oncology, April 03, 2020
• Oncologists, Pathologists Need a 'Culture Change' on Biopsies   Dr Mark Kris discusses the profound effect that the wait time between cancer being diagnosed and treatment being initiated has on both patients and physicians.
  Medscape Oncology, April 03, 2020
• Cancer Patients Are Concerned About Cancer, Then COVID-19   Dr Mark Kris discusses how patients with cancer are primarily concerned about their cancer and its consequences, followed by concerns about COVID-19.
  Medscape Oncology, April 03, 2020
• How Long Is It Safe to Delay Gynecologic Cancer Surgery? Many health systems have defined which surgeries they consider permissible during the pandemic, typically by using time parameters (days/weeks/hours) by which a patient would not be caused harm.
  Medscape Medical News, March 26, 2020
• COVID-19: ASTCT Provides Interim Guidelines for Transplantation The guidelines for the care of hematopoietic cell transplantation focus on diagnostic and treatment considerations, evaluation of patients prior to starting HCT therapy, and cell donor evaluation.
  Medscape Medical News, March 26, 2020
• Lessons on COVID-19 From Low-Income Countries Physicians in lower-income countries routinely face the logistic difficulties and constrained resources now seen in first-world countries as a result of the coronavirus pandemic.
  Medscape Oncology, March 26, 2020
• 5 Key Targeted Therapy Advances for Lung Cancer Drs West and Aggarwal share their thoughts on the past decade's targeted therapy innovations, and how they may keep going well into the 2020s.
  Medscape Oncology, March 26, 2020
• How COVID-19 Is Already Changing Cancer Care   Changes in local practice may last well beyond this pandemic, and that's good, says David Kerr. But governments need to follow the lead of their scientists and cooperate.
  Medscape Oncology, March 24, 2020
• Italian Oncologist's Cautionary Advice on COVID-19 for US Centers Marina Garassino, MD, chief of the Medical Thoracic Oncology Unit at the Istituto Nazionale dei Tumori in Milan, Italy, talks about her experience during Italy's COVID-19 outbreak.
  Medscape Oncology, March 20, 2020
• Adding CDK4/6 Inhibitors to Metastatic Breast Cancer Therapy How are these agents used in treatment? We asked the experts.
  Medscape Oncology, March 18, 2020
• High Achievers on What Their Failures Taught Them In medicine there are many doors: medical school, residency, possibly fellowship. And when one door closes, another opens.
  Medscape Oncology, March 17, 2020
• The Possibilities of Pembrolizumab Plus Chemo in Breast Cancer Dr Alan Lyss reviews I-SPY2 and other studies of pembrolizumab plus chemotherapy in breast cancer patients.
  Medscape Oncology, March 12, 2020
• Why I Won't Stop Treating Patients at the End of Life A young oncologist's view of end-of-life care shifts as his practice grows.
  Medscape Oncology, March 11, 2020
• The Week That Wasn't: Alzheimer's Acid, Mourning & Melanoma, Preterm Epigenetics Three medical stories that we didn't cover, explained.
  Medscape, March 06, 2020