{"id":7259,"date":"2020-06-01T12:43:44","date_gmt":"2020-06-01T19:43:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=7259"},"modified":"2021-03-24T12:44:25","modified_gmt":"2021-03-24T19:44:25","slug":"covid-19-mortality-in-patients-with-cancer-on-chemotherapy-or-other-anticancer-treatments-a-prospective-cohort-study","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/06\/01\/covid-19-mortality-in-patients-with-cancer-on-chemotherapy-or-other-anticancer-treatments-a-prospective-cohort-study\/","title":{"rendered":"COVID-19 Mortality in Patients with Cancer on Chemotherapy or Other Anticancer Treatments:\u00a0A Prospective\u00a0Cohort Study"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li data-leveltext=\"\uf0b7\" data-font=\"Symbol\" data-listid=\"34\" data-aria-posinset=\"2019\" data-aria-level=\"1\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Lee et al. report that a<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0multicenter observational study in\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">the<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0UK\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">found<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0no evidence that cancer patients\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">receiving<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0cytotoxic chemotherapy or other anticancer treatment\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">were<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0at an increased risk of mortality from COVID-19 compared\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">to<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0those not on active treatment.<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">The<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0mortality\u00a0is principally driven by advancing age and non-cancer comorbidities.\u00a0<\/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<li data-leveltext=\"\uf0b7\" data-font=\"Symbol\" data-listid=\"34\" data-aria-posinset=\"2019\" data-aria-level=\"1\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">W<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">ithholding effective cancer treatments during the pandemic\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">may\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">result in\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">increas<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">ed<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0cancer morbidity and mortality<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0without preventing deaths from COVID-19<\/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 28, 2020). COVID-19 Mortality in Patients with Cancer on Chemotherapy or Other Anticancer Treatments:\u00a0A Prospective\u00a0Cohort Study. Lancet.<\/span><\/i><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1016\/S0140-6736(20)31173-9\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1016\/S0140-6736(20)31173-9<\/span><\/a><span data-ccp-props=\"{&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>Lee et al. report that a\u00a0multicenter observational study in\u00a0the\u00a0UK\u00a0found\u00a0no evidence that cancer patients\u00a0receiving\u00a0cytotoxic chemotherapy or other anticancer treatment\u00a0were\u00a0at an increased risk of mortality from COVID-19 compared\u00a0to\u00a0those not on active treatment.\u00a0The\u00a0mortality\u00a0is principally driven by advancing age and non-cancer comorbidities.\u00a0\u00a0 Withholding effective cancer treatments during the pandemic\u00a0may\u00a0result in\u00a0increased\u00a0cancer morbidity and mortality\u00a0without preventing deaths from COVID-19.\u00a0 Lee et&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/06\/01\/covid-19-mortality-in-patients-with-cancer-on-chemotherapy-or-other-anticancer-treatments-a-prospective-cohort-study\/\">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-7259","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\/7259","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=7259"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7259\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7260,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7259\/revisions\/7260"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7259"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7259"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7259"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=7259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}