Title: Effects of SARS-COV-2 Viral Infection on Cancer Patients: A Biological and Statistical Study during the COVID-19 Outbreak
Abstract: The novel COVID-19 Pandemic has affected the World terribly causing death of more than 500,000 people, affecting over 200 countries and demolishing the World Economy. As prior studies and researches suggest, cancer patients are generally considered more prone to the viral infections owing to various relevant reasons. Therefore, a systematic analysis of cancer patients affected by COVID-19 is highly required. In this paper, data from several performed experiments in many multi-centred studies are included and evaluated to draw conclusions, specifically focusing on the age-matched non-cancer patients confirmed with COVID-19. The results suggests that COVID-19 patients with cancer had higher risks in all severe outcomes [1]. Patients with hematologic cancer, lung cancer, or with metastatic cancer (stage IV) had minimum survival chances. Patients with non-metastatic cancer also showed similar results to those observed in patients without cancer. Patients who received surgery had low mortality rates. Again, patients undergoing radiotherapy did not possess any differences which is significant [2]. These results clearly suggest that patients with cancer are more prone to SARS-CoV-2 viral infection.
Publication Year: 2020
Publication Date: 2020-07-01
Language: en
Type: article
Indexed In: ['crossref']
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