Patients whose cancer was getting worse or spreading were more than 5 times more likely to die in the space of a month if they caught Covid-19, researchers said this week. Even if the cancer wasn't spreading, the infection nearly doubled the risk of dying.
Researchers are learning more about the risks cancer patients face if they become sick with Covid-19, the disease caused by the novel coronavirus that has swept through the world.
Patients whose cancer was getting worse or spreading were more than five times more likely to die in the space of a month if they caught Covid-19, researchers said this week during the annual meeting of the American Society of Clinical Oncology.Even if the patients' cancer wasn't spreading, coronavirus infection nearly doubled the risk of dying, the researchers found.
"Cancer is still moving at its pace. So we have to get people back in the research labs. We have to get our clinical trials back up and running, but in the context of this paper, we have to do it safely -- and when those patients undergoing therapy get Covid, it appears with these data that they have a much higher risk," Cance told CNN."But one of my greatest worries is the undiagnosed patient, the patients who need to be screened and they're not getting their screenings.
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