ASBrS COVID-19 Updates

• May 15, 2020

  Updated Recommendations: Consortium Releases Guidance on Multidisciplinary Breast Cancer Care During Pandemic Recovery

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  COVID-19 Considerations for Re-entry

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  May 15, 2020

  Dear Colleagues:

  In an effort to rapidly produce guidance for the health care community, a consortium of experts from The American Society of Breast Surgeons (ASBrS), the National Accreditation Program for Breast Centers (NAPBC), the National Comprehensive Cancer Network (NCCN), the Commission on Cancer (CoC) and the American College of Radiology® (ACR®) joined forces to produce an Executive Summary and then an Editorial to help busy clinicians navigate through difficult decisions during the COVID-19 pandemic.

  We created a follow up document (pdf) to help guide the health care community through the recovery stage of the pandemic, recognizing that different hospitals and cancer centers would be in different phases of the pandemic and recovery. We were delighted to have experts from the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) and the Society of Surgical Oncology (SSO) join the consortium. This document is a combination of peer reviewed literature as well as expert opinion when good data was not available. Since breast cancer is a multidisciplinary disease, we felt the best way to present this was in a multidisciplinary conference fashion. For some of the scenarios, one or another of the disciplines is more prominent.

  Please feel free to use and to distribute this document. We welcome your feedback.

  Jill R. Dietz, MD
  President
  On Behalf of the ASBrS Board of Directors

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• April 13, 2020

  COVID-19 Pandemic Breast Cancer Consortium

  Webinar Recording Now Available—Watch Now!

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  April 13: Webinar Recording

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  The COVID-19 Pandemic Breast Cancer Consortium

  Recommendations for Prioritization, Treatment and Triage of Breast Cancer Patients During the COVID-19 Pandemic

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  Monday, April 13, 7:00–8:00 PM ET

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  On Monday, April 13, the Society co-hosted a webinar to discuss the recently released Recommendations for Prioritization, Treatment and Triage of Breast Cancer Patients During the COVID-19 Pandemic (download pdf).

  The panel was comprised of a multidisciplinary group of experts from The American Society of Breast Surgeons (ASBrS), the National Accreditation Program for Breast Centers (NAPBC), the National Comprehensive Cancer Network (NCCN), the Commission on Cancer (CoC) of the American College of Surgeons, and the American College of Radiology (ACR)

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• April 7, 2020

  Updated Recommendations: Treating Breast Cancer Patients During the COVID‑19 Pandemic

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  Updated Recommendations for Prioritization, Treatment and Triage of Breast Cancer Patients During the COVID‑19 Pandemic

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  April 7, 2020

  Dear Colleagues:

  Our Society, NAPBC, CoC, NCCN and ACR recently collaborated to produce the manuscript, Recommendations for Prioritization, Treatment and Triage of Breast Cancer Patients During the COVID-19 Pandemic (download PDF), which was accepted for publication in Breast Cancer Research and Treatment. Please utilize this updated manuscript in place of the executive summary we previously sent to you. We wanted to get the paper to you as soon as possible and will alert you when it is published both online and in print. We hope that this resource helps with some of the difficult decisions that you all are facing.

  Stay healthy and safe during these uncertain times.

  Stay Well,

  Jill R. Dietz, MD
  President
  On Behalf of the ASBrS Board of Directors

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• April 1, 2020

  Society Launches COVID-19 Registry

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• Society Releases ASBrS Resource Guide to Endocrine Therapy in the COVID-19 Pandemic

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• Society Launches COVID-19 Resource Center

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