{"id":1476,"date":"2020-10-09T09:46:43","date_gmt":"2020-10-09T16:46:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=1476"},"modified":"2020-10-12T09:47:42","modified_gmt":"2020-10-12T16:47:42","slug":"prevalence-and-outcome-of-covid-19-infection-in-cancer-patients-a-national-veterans-affairs-study","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/10\/09\/prevalence-and-outcome-of-covid-19-infection-in-cancer-patients-a-national-veterans-affairs-study\/","title":{"rendered":"Prevalence and Outcome of COVID-19 Infection in Cancer Patients: A National Veterans Affairs Study"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>The pre-existence of cancer may affects both susceptibility to COVID-19 infection and outcomes, according to an analysis of healthcare records from the US Veterans Affairs healthcare system. The overall COVID-19 attributable mortality in patients with cancer was 10%, which was higher with older age, a higher Charlson comorbidity score, and certain types of cancer. The analysis found that recent or past cancer treatment did not impact attributable mortality. Additionally, while Black patients had 3.5-fold higher COVID-19 attributable hospitalization, they had similar attributable mortality to that of white patients.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Fillmore et al. (Oct 8, 2020). Prevalence and Outcome of COVID-19 Infection in Cancer Patients: A National Veterans Affairs Study. JNCI: Journal of the National Cancer Institute. <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1093\/jnci\/djaa159\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1093\/jnci\/djaa159<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The pre-existence of cancer may affects both susceptibility to COVID-19 infection and outcomes, according to an analysis of healthcare records from the US Veterans Affairs healthcare system. The overall COVID-19 attributable mortality in patients with cancer was 10%, which was higher with older age, a higher Charlson comorbidity score, and certain types of cancer. The&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/10\/09\/prevalence-and-outcome-of-covid-19-infection-in-cancer-patients-a-national-veterans-affairs-study\/\">Read more<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[34],"topic":[20],"class_list":["post-1476","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-summary","tag-clinical-characteristics","topic-clinical-characteristics-and-health-care-setting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1476","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1476"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1476\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1477,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1476\/revisions\/1477"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1476"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1476"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1476"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=1476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}