More people with cancer died from COVID-19 during the first year of the pandemic. Stay at home orders and lockdown delayed cancer screening and treatment among many cancer patients
A new analysis of unvaccinated adults with cancer and COVID-19 found a nearly sevenfold increased risk of dying from any cause compared with uninfected adults with cancer.
Although the findings focus on deaths before vaccines became available, the data can help researchers better understand some of the burden COVID-19 had on patients with cancer.
A new study found that among a subgroup of patients with hematologic/solid cancers and COVID-19, the time to symptom improvement was shorter and overall survival was better with plasma therapy.
A large meta-analysis suggests that younger age and lung and blood cancers, as well as treatment with chemotherapy, raise the risk for death from COVID-19.