{"id":7140,"date":"2020-05-27T17:25:06","date_gmt":"2020-05-28T00:25:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=7140"},"modified":"2021-03-19T17:25:54","modified_gmt":"2021-03-20T00:25:54","slug":"cancer-and-risk-of-covid-19-through-a-general-community-survey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/05\/27\/cancer-and-risk-of-covid-19-through-a-general-community-survey\/","title":{"rendered":"Cancer and Risk of COVID-19 through a General Community Survey"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li data-leveltext=\"\uf0b7\" data-font=\"Symbol\" data-listid=\"34\" data-aria-posinset=\"2019\" data-aria-level=\"1\"><i><span data-contrast=\"none\">[<\/span><\/i><i><span data-contrast=\"none\">pre-print, not peer reviewed<\/span><\/i><i><span data-contrast=\"none\">]<\/span><\/i><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Lee et al.\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">evaluated the effect of cancer-related treatments on the risk for COVID-19 among &gt;1.8 million patients living with cancer\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">in\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">the\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">UK,\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">US and Sweden.<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">They found that individuals with cancer had a significantly increased risk (aOR\u00a01.62, 95%CI 1.37-1.91) of\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">COVID-19<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0compared to the general community. Those treated with chemotherapy or immunotherapy were particularly at<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">risk<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">(aOR<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">: 2.42; 95%CI: 1.81-3.25)<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233279&quot;:true,&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><i><span data-contrast=\"none\">Lee et al. (May 26, 2020). Cancer and Risk of COVID-19 through a General Community Survey. Pre-print\u00a0downloaded May 27 from\u00a0<\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1101\/2020.05.20.20103762\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1101\/2020.05.20.20103762<\/span><\/a><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233279&quot;:true,&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559685&quot;:720,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[pre-print, not peer reviewed]\u00a0Lee et al.\u00a0evaluated the effect of cancer-related treatments on the risk for COVID-19 among &gt;1.8 million patients living with cancer\u00a0in\u00a0the\u00a0UK,\u00a0US and Sweden.\u00a0They found that individuals with cancer had a significantly increased risk (aOR\u00a01.62, 95%CI 1.37-1.91) of\u00a0COVID-19\u00a0compared to the general community. Those treated with chemotherapy or immunotherapy were particularly at\u00a0risk\u00a0(aOR: 2.42; 95%CI: 1.81-3.25).\u00a0&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/05\/27\/cancer-and-risk-of-covid-19-through-a-general-community-survey\/\">Read more<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"topic":[20],"class_list":["post-7140","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-summary","topic-clinical-characteristics-and-health-care-setting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7140","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\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7140"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7140\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7141,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7140\/revisions\/7141"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7140"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=7140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}