COVID-19 Severity and Outcomes in Patients With Cancer: A Matched Cohort Study.
Gagandeep BrarLaura C PinheiroMichael ShustermanBrandon SwedEvgeniya ReshetnyakOrysya SorokaFrank ChenSamuel YamshonJohn L VaughnPeter MartinDoru PaulManuel HildagoManish A ShahPublished in: Journal of clinical oncology : official journal of the American Society of Clinical Oncology (2020)
We observed that patients with COVID-19 and cancer had similar outcomes compared with matched patients without cancer. This finding suggests that a diagnosis of active cancer alone and recent anticancer therapy do not predict worse COVID-19 outcomes and therefore, recommendations to limit cancer-directed therapy must be considered carefully in relation to cancer-specific outcomes and death.