Posts Tagged ‘covidcancer’
Remote Home Monitoring of Patients With Cancer During the COVID Pandemic: A Pilot Study
The COVID-19 pandemic has spurred cancer teams to find new ways to care safely for patients with cancer, in particular outpatients who have tested positive for COVID-19 but do not require hospitalization. Inova Schar Cancer Institute’s physicians and advanced practice providers utilized a program called remote patient monitoring (RPM) to observe COVID-positive outpatients. To study…
Read MoreBladder Cancer Discovery: Immunotherapy as Maintenance Treatment
Bladder cancer is the sixth most common cancer in the United States. Bladder cancer is usually diagnosed at “superficial” or non-invasive stages, when it only involves the lining of the bladder and can be treated with removal of the cancerous tissue alone. However, some patients develop high-risk tumors that are likely to come back and…
Read MoreInova Schar Joins Worldwide Research Effort to Gather COVID-19 Data
Inova Schar has joined colleagues around the country and soon, around the world, as part of the COVID-19 and Cancer Consortium (CCC19), a group of over 100 cancer centers and other organizations who have come together to collect data with the common cause of understanding better the unique effects of COVID-19 on patients with cancer,…
Read MoreDr. Shawna Willey: Prioritizing Care for Breast Cancer Patients During COVID-19
The COVID-19 pandemic presents clinicians with a unique set of challenges in managing breast cancer patients. As hospital resources and staff become more limited during the COVID-19 pandemic, it becomes critically important to define which breast cancer patients require more urgent care and which patients can wait for treatment until the pandemic is over. A…
Read MoreBrain Tumor Treatment Guidelines Feature Inova Co-Author Dr. Mateo Ziu
Dr. Mateo Ziu, medical director of the Inova Brain and Spine Tumor Program and medical director of neuro-oncology at Inova Schar Cancer Institute, was a senior author on the recent article Urgent considerations for the neuro-oncologic treatment of patients with gliomas during the COVID-19 pandemic. The piece contains professional guidelines for implementing a proactive and…
Read MoreInova’s Dr. Bajaj Contributes to Professional COVID Guidelines
When the American Society for Radiation Oncology (ASTRO) developed its COVID-19 professional practice guidelines, a work group of ASTRO members contributed – including Inova Schar’s Chairman and Medical Director of Radiation Oncology, Dr. Gopal Bajaj, who collaborated with fellow physicians from hospitals around the United States. The group based the guidelines on information from a…
Read MoreRadiation Oncologists Emerging as Unlikely Sleuths of Coronavirus
During radiation treatment, doctors are picking up images that could indicate COVID-19 in patients who are asymptomatic. Inova Schar Cancer Institute’s Chairman and Medical Director of Radiation Oncology, Dr. Gopal Bajaj, spoke with Bloomberg Law about how radiation oncologists are emerging as the coronavirus’s unlikely sleuths. According to the April 2020 article, there have been…
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