Risk of COVID-19 Infections and of Severe Complications Among Survivors of Childhood, Adolescent, and Young Adult Cancer: A Population-Based Study in Ontario, Canada.
Sumit GuptaRinku SutradharSarah AlexanderMichelle ScienceCindy LauChenthila NagamuthuMohammad AghaPaul C NathanDavid C HodgsonPublished in: Journal of clinical oncology : official journal of the American Society of Clinical Oncology (2022)
Cancer survivors were not at increased risk of COVID-19 infections or severe sequelae. These results can inform risk-counseling of survivors and their caregivers. Further study is warranted to determine risk in older survivors, specific subsets of survivors, and that associated with novel COVID-19 variants.
Keyphrases
- young adults
- childhood cancer
- coronavirus disease
- sars cov
- early onset
- respiratory syndrome coronavirus
- palliative care
- physical activity
- papillary thyroid
- risk factors
- smoking cessation
- mental health
- dna methylation
- squamous cell
- human immunodeficiency virus
- community dwelling
- antiretroviral therapy
- hiv testing
- genome wide