Guidance Issued for COVID-19 Vaccination of Cancer Patients
Patients with cancer should be prioritized for vaccination; caregivers and household/close contacts should undergo vaccination when possible
Patients with cancer should be prioritized for vaccination; caregivers and household/close contacts should undergo vaccination when possible
Risk lower for men with newly diagnosed prostate cancer on active surveillance protocol
Although most parents of children with cancer form trusting relationships with their children’s oncologists, poor outcomes may negatively affect this.
Broad use of PARP inhibitors to treat advanced-stage ovarian cancer would be associated with high costs compared with their biomarker-directed use.
Use of permanent hair dye is not associated with the risk for most cancers or cancer mortality.
Immune selection in younger and female patients may influence driver mutations that persist, possibly affecting response to immune checkpoint blockade.
A proof-of-principle study confirms presence of TP53 variants ahead of diagnosis.
For childhood cancer survivors, early initiation of breast cancer screening with magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) may reduce breast cancer mortality by more than half.
For patients with advanced-stage pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma, those with homologous recombination deficiency have improved survival with first-line platinum treatment.
Modest delays in cancer surgery due to the COVID-19 pandemic could have a significant impact on survival.