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More light on cancer and COVID-19 reciprocal interaction.

Patrick BrestBaharia MograbiPaul HofmanGerard Milano
Published in: British journal of cancer (2021)
Cancer patients are vulnerable to COVID-19 with consequences on treatment delays and on mortality rate. This Comment explores the interaction between COVID-19 and cancer with attention paid to the modulation by cancer treatments of both ADAM17 and TMPRSS2, the proteases which control ACE2 processing, the SARS-CoV-2 target.
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