Addressing the needs of cancer survivors during the COVID-19 pandemic

Larissa Nekhlyudov¹, Saskia Duijts^{2

3}, Shawna V Hudson^{4

5}, Jennifer M Jones^{6

7}, Justin Keogh⁸, Brad Love⁹, Maryam Lustberg¹⁰, Katherine Clegg Smith¹¹, Amye Tevaarwerk^{12

13}, Xinhua Yu¹⁴, Michael Feuerstein¹⁵

Affiliations

¹ Department of Medicine, Brigham & Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA. lnekhlyudov@partners.org.
² Department of Public and Occupational Health, Amsterdam UMC, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
³ Netherlands Comprehensive Cancer Organization (IKNL), Utrecht, The Netherlands.
⁴ Department of Family Medicine and Community Health, Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, Brunswick, NJ, USA.
⁵ Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey, New Brunswick, NJ, USA.
⁶ Cancer Rehabilitation and Survivorship Program, Princess Margaret Cancer Centre, Toronto, Canada.
⁷ Department of Psychiatry, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada.
⁸ Faculty of Health Sciences and Medicine, Bond University, Gold Coast, Australia.
⁹ Center for Health Communication, Moody College of Communication and Dell Medical School, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, USA.
¹⁰ The Ohio State Comprehensive Cancer Center, Columbus, OH, USA.
¹¹ Department of Health, Behavior and Society, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD, USA.
¹² Hematology/Oncology, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI, USA.
¹³ Carbone Cancer Center, Madison, WI, USA.
¹⁴ Division of Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Environmental Health, University of Memphis, Memphis, TN, USA.
¹⁵ The Journal of Cancer Survivorship, Gaithersburg, MD, USA.

Editorial

Larissa Nekhlyudov et al. J Cancer Surviv. 2020 Oct.

. 2020 Oct;14(5):601-606.

doi: 10.1007/s11764-020-00884-w.

¹ Department of Medicine, Brigham & Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA. lnekhlyudov@partners.org.
² Department of Public and Occupational Health, Amsterdam UMC, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
³ Netherlands Comprehensive Cancer Organization (IKNL), Utrecht, The Netherlands.
⁴ Department of Family Medicine and Community Health, Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, Brunswick, NJ, USA.
⁵ Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey, New Brunswick, NJ, USA.
⁶ Cancer Rehabilitation and Survivorship Program, Princess Margaret Cancer Centre, Toronto, Canada.
⁷ Department of Psychiatry, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada.
⁸ Faculty of Health Sciences and Medicine, Bond University, Gold Coast, Australia.
⁹ Center for Health Communication, Moody College of Communication and Dell Medical School, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, USA.
¹⁰ The Ohio State Comprehensive Cancer Center, Columbus, OH, USA.
¹¹ Department of Health, Behavior and Society, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD, USA.
¹² Hematology/Oncology, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI, USA.
¹³ Carbone Cancer Center, Madison, WI, USA.
¹⁴ Division of Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Environmental Health, University of Memphis, Memphis, TN, USA.
¹⁵ The Journal of Cancer Survivorship, Gaithersburg, MD, USA.

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Conflict of interest statement

The authors declare that they have no conflict of interest.

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