What cancer patients and caregivers need to know about COVID-19
What does COVID-19 mean for cancer patients and caregivers? How can they lower their risk of infection? How can everyone help reduce risk for this vulnerable population? What should cancer patients do if they are undergoing treatment?\n\nLen Lichtenfeld, MD, MACP, Deputy Chief Medical Officer for the American Cancer Society, provides important guidance and perspective.\n\n2:26 \u2013 The need for people, and particularly those with cancer, to find reliable sources of information\n\n3:51 \u2013 How there is much we don\u2019t yet know about how COVID-19 affects cancer patients\n\n5:20 \u2013 Why the mortality rate for cancer patients with COVID-19 is higher than it is for other groups\n\n7:22 \u2013 How cancer patients can mitigate risk\n\n8:39 \u2013 \u201cNever has there been a time when my health, or your health, depends so much on others around us doing the right thing.\u201d\n\n10:35 \u2013 Why we all have a responsibility to help \u201cflatten the curve\u201d\n\n13:16 \u2013 Should cancer patients give up social activities like dinner with friends?\n\n17:12 \u2013 What does this epidemic mean for cancer patients currently undergoing treatment?\n\n22:24 \u2013 The most important thing for us all to hold onto in the time ahead