Crowdsourcing a crisis response for COVID-19 in oncology.

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.

Nature cancer. 2020 Apr 21 [Epub ahead of print]

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

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