Outcome of oncological patients admitted with COVID-19: experience of a hospital center in northern Italy.
Sara CherriDaniel H L LemmersSilvia NoventaMohammed Abu HilalAlberto ZaniboniPublished in: Therapeutic advances in medical oncology (2020)
The presence of active oncological disease is independently related to mortality as well as age and diabetes. The majority of patients who died were frail. Careful evaluation of the risks and benefits of treatment in frail patients is needed, considering that difficult access to intensive care may have affected the mortality rate.
Keyphrases
- end stage renal disease
- cardiovascular events
- newly diagnosed
- sars cov
- rectal cancer
- chronic kidney disease
- cardiovascular disease
- risk factors
- healthcare
- emergency department
- coronary artery disease
- adipose tissue
- metabolic syndrome
- human health
- adverse drug
- smoking cessation
- replacement therapy
- respiratory syndrome coronavirus