Abstract
In late 2019 and early 2020, the world witnessed the outbreak of the SARS-CoV-2 (also referred as COVID-19) in Wuhan, China. Its rapid expansion worldwide and its contagiousness rate have forced the activation of several measures to contain the pandemic, mostly through confinement and identification of infected patients and potential contacts by testing.
Highlights
It is well established that patients with cancer are more susceptible to infections since they tend to be older, have multiple comorbidities, and because of the immunosuppressive state caused by anticancer treatments (1), so they could be potentially at particular risk from COVID-19 infection (2)
In a Chinese analysis (3) Professor He and colleagues found that patients with cancer presented an important risk of secondary events due to COVID-19 if we compare it with a population without cancer: 39% in the oncologic population versus 8%, hazard ratio of 3.56
Chest CT scan might provide prognostic information as, some published data reported that the presence of a patchy consolidation by lung CT scan at patient admission was associated to possibility of a severe event in a multivariate analysis in COVID-19+ patients (HR = 5.438; CI 1.498–19.748; p = 0.010)
Summary
It is well established that patients with cancer are more susceptible to infections since they tend to be older, have multiple comorbidities, and because of the immunosuppressive state caused by anticancer treatments (1), so they could be potentially at particular risk from COVID-19 infection (2).In a Chinese analysis (3) Professor He and colleagues found that patients with cancer presented an important risk of secondary events due to COVID-19 if we compare it with a population without cancer: 39% in the oncologic population versus 8%, hazard ratio of 3.56. The standard method to diagnose infection by COVID-19 is through identification by RT-PCR SARS-CoV-2 testing.
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