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Jeremy L. Warner, MD, on the Clinical Impact of COVID-19 on Patients With Cancer

ASCO20 Virtual Scientific Program

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Jeremy L. Warner, MD, of Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center, discusses data from the COVID-19 and Cancer Consortium cohort study, which included patients with active or prior hematologic or invasive solid malignancies, reported across academic and community sites (Abstract LBA110).



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