Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on telehealth research in cancer prevention and care: A call to sustain telehealth advances

Elyse R Park; Caroline Chiles; Paul M Cinciripini; Kristie L Foley; Lisa M Fucito; Jennifer S Haas; Anne M Joseph; Jamie S Ostroff; Nancy A Rigotti; Donna R Shelley; Kathryn L Taylor; Steven B Zeliadt; Benjamin A Toll; Smoking Cessation at Lung Examination (SCALE) Research Group

doi:10.1002/cncr.33227

Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on telehealth research in cancer prevention and care: A call to sustain telehealth advances

Cancer. 2021 Feb 1;127(3):334-338. doi: 10.1002/cncr.33227. Epub 2020 Oct 13.

Authors

Elyse R Park^{1

2}, Caroline Chiles³, Paul M Cinciripini⁴, Kristie L Foley³, Lisa M Fucito^{5

6}, Jennifer S Haas^{1

2}, Anne M Joseph⁷, Jamie S Ostroff⁸, Nancy A Rigotti^{1

2}, Donna R Shelley⁹, Kathryn L Taylor¹⁰, Steven B Zeliadt^{11

12}, Benjamin A Toll^{13

14}; Smoking Cessation at Lung Examination (SCALE) Research Group

Affiliations

¹ Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts.
² Dana Farber/Harvard Cancer Center, Boston, Massachusetts.
³ Wake Forest School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, North Carolina.
⁴ The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas.
⁵ Yale Cancer Center, New Haven, Connecticut.
⁶ Yale School of Medicine, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut.
⁷ University of Minnesota Medical School, Minneapolis, Minnesota.
⁸ Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, New York.
⁹ New York University School of Global Public Health, New York, New York.
¹⁰ Georgetown Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center, Georgetown University, Washington, DC.
¹¹ University of Washington School of Public Health, Seattle, Washington.
¹² Veterans Affairs Puget Sound Health Care System, Seattle, Washington.
¹³ Hollings Cancer Center, Charleston, South Carolina.
¹⁴ Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, South Carolina.

Abstract

History has shown that we must adapt and learn from crises so that we can improve how we deliver care and conduct research to improve clinical outcomes. The COVID‐19 pandemic has expedited work regarding virtual research methods and serves as an opportunity to evaluate how to initiate, implement, and sustain cancer prevention, early detection, and treatment research going forward.

Keywords: COVID; cancer prevention; lung screen; telehealth; virtual.

Publication types

Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural

MeSH terms

Biomedical Research / methods*
COVID-19*
Confidentiality
Delivery of Health Care
Humans
Lung / diagnostic imaging
Lung Neoplasms / diagnostic imaging
Lung Neoplasms / etiology
Neoplasms / diagnostic imaging
Neoplasms / prevention & control*
Neoplasms / therapy
Patient Participation
Smoking Cessation
Telemedicine* / methods
Telemedicine* / organization & administration
Tomography, X-Ray Computed

Abstract

Publication types

MeSH terms

Grants and funding