Impact of Cancer History on Outcomes Among Hospitalized Patients with COVID-19.
Written by Isaac A Klein, Shoshana M Rosenberg, Kerry L Reynolds, Leyre Zubiri, Rachel Rosovsky, Andrew J Piper-Vallillo, Xin Gao, Genevieve Boland, Aditya Bardia, Rachel Gaither, Hannah Freeman, Gregory J Kirkner, Chanu Rhee, Michael Klompas, Meghan A Baker, Martha Wadleigh, Eric P Winer, Camille N Kotton, Ann H Partridge
May 12, 2021
BACKGROUND: Early reports suggested increased mortality from COVID-19 in patients with cancer but lacked rigorous comparisons to patients without cancer. We investigated whether a current cancer diagnosis or cancer history…