Risk of COVID-19 for cancer patients
Yang Xia †, Rui Jin †, Jing Zhao †, Wen Li, Huahao Shen
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Published:March 03, 2020DOI:https://doi.org/10.1016/S1470-2045(20)30150-9
We read the excellent Comment by Wenhua Liang and colleagues1 in The Lancet Oncology with great interest. Of 1590 cases with confirmed coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), 18 patients had a history of cancer. The authors concluded that patients with cancer had a higher risk of COVID-19 and with a poorer prognosis than those without cancer.