Acs Research - Theorylab

How will COVID-19 impact cancer risk and survivorship? The American Cancer Society is inviting participants in its ongoing Cancer Prevention Study-3 (CPS-3) to use a new app to help investigators track the COVID-19 epidemic and inform future research efforts. Dr. Alpa Patel explains that understanding how COVID-19 infection is affecting patients—in combination with all the other data that she and her team are collecting through CPS-3 on an ongoing basis—will help answer some very important questions about the impact of COVID-19 on cancer risk and survivorship. Alpa Patel, PhD, is Sr. Scientific Director of Epidemiology Research and the Principal Investigator of Cancer Prevention Study-3 at the American Cancer Society. The app, the COVID Symptom Tracker (https://covid.joinzoe.com/us), was created by doctors and scientists at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Massachusetts General Hospital, King's College London, and Stanford University School of Medicine, working in partnership with the health