COVID-19 in melanoma patients: Spanish register (original) (raw)

Clinical Cancer Research, 2020

Abstract

Background: The COVID-19 pandemic has produced devastating effects on the health care system, also affectingcancer patient care When the pandemic reached Spain by the end of February 2020, the scarce data aboutCOVID-19 infection in cancer patients pointed out a higher risk of complications due to cancer diagnosis and also tocancer therapies These conjectures led to concerns about hospital follow-up and cancer therapies of cancerpatients More recent studies have included a higher number of patients, but heterogeneous according to cancertype and tumor stage, with few melanoma patients recorded Given that different tumor types are associated withspecific comorbidities that have a known impact on COVID-19 evolution, analysis of COVID-19 by cancer types ismandatory Similarly, analysis by tumor stage is relevant, as advanced cases could have different responses to viralinfection due to tumor-related immunosuppression and general condition deterioration Methods: In Spain we have completed ...

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