Clinical characteristics, laboratory parameters and outcomes of COVID-19 in cancer and non-cancer patients from a tertiary Cancer Centre in India.

Sumeet Prakash MirghAnant GokarnAkhil RajendraAshwini MoreSujit KamtalwarKritika S KattiAnuj SinghVasu Babu GoliRahul RavindRavikrishna MadalaSangeeta KakotiPriyamvada MaitreSachin PunatarAkanksha ChichraAmar PatilBhakti TrivediAmit JoshiNikhil PatkarPrashant TembhareTwinkle KhankaSweta RajpalGaurav ChatterjeeSadhana KannanP G SubramanianVedang MurthyNitin ShettyPreeti ChavanVivek BhatSudhir NairNavin KhattrySudeep Gupta

Published in: Cancer medicine (2021)

Cancer patients with COVID-19 have higher mortality and require longer hospital stay. High procalcitonin levels and oxygen requirement during admission are other factors that affect outcomes adversely.

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