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Characteristics and Outcomes of 35 Breast Cancer Patients Infected With COVID-19

Since December 2019, a novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) has rapidly engulfed the world. Cancer patients infected with COVID-19 are considered to carry higher severity of the disease and higher mortality rate than common COVID...

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Autores principales: Zhang, Bo, Xie, Rong, Hubert, Shawna M., Yu, Yuanhang, Zhang, Yue, Lei, Xiao, Deng, Wei, Chen, Jianying, Li, Yunqiao
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Frontiers Media S.A. 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7609864/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33194660
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fonc.2020.570130
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author Zhang, Bo
Xie, Rong
Hubert, Shawna M.
Yu, Yuanhang
Zhang, Yue
Lei, Xiao
Deng, Wei
Chen, Jianying
Li, Yunqiao
author_facet Zhang, Bo
Xie, Rong
Hubert, Shawna M.
Yu, Yuanhang
Zhang, Yue
Lei, Xiao
Deng, Wei
Chen, Jianying
Li, Yunqiao
author_sort Zhang, Bo
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description Since December 2019, a novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) has rapidly engulfed the world. Cancer patients infected with COVID-19 are considered to carry higher severity of the disease and higher mortality rate than common COVID-19 patients in previous studies. However, due to the poor clinical information on COVID-19 patients with cancer, the evidences that supported this conclusion are insufficient. At present, rather limited reports have analyzed the clinical data of breast cancer patients infected with COVID-19. Therefore, in this retrospective study, we described the clinical characteristics and the outcomes of 35 COVID-19 patients with breast cancer and compared 55 COVID-19 patients without cancer and 81 COVID-19 patients with other types of cancer as controls. Our data showed that there were no differences in disease severity and outcomes between the COVID-19 patients with breast cancer and the common COVID-19 patients, which was in contrast to previous studies. In addition, compared with other types of cancer patients, asymptomatic infections and mild cases among breast cancer patients made up a substantially larger proportion. Our results indicated that the clinical characteristics of breast cancer patients were milder than those of other types of cancer patients, but there were no significant differences in outcomes between the two groups.
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spelling pubmed-76098642020-11-13 Characteristics and Outcomes of 35 Breast Cancer Patients Infected With COVID-19 Zhang, Bo Xie, Rong Hubert, Shawna M. Yu, Yuanhang Zhang, Yue Lei, Xiao Deng, Wei Chen, Jianying Li, Yunqiao Front Oncol Oncology Since December 2019, a novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) has rapidly engulfed the world. Cancer patients infected with COVID-19 are considered to carry higher severity of the disease and higher mortality rate than common COVID-19 patients in previous studies. However, due to the poor clinical information on COVID-19 patients with cancer, the evidences that supported this conclusion are insufficient. At present, rather limited reports have analyzed the clinical data of breast cancer patients infected with COVID-19. Therefore, in this retrospective study, we described the clinical characteristics and the outcomes of 35 COVID-19 patients with breast cancer and compared 55 COVID-19 patients without cancer and 81 COVID-19 patients with other types of cancer as controls. Our data showed that there were no differences in disease severity and outcomes between the COVID-19 patients with breast cancer and the common COVID-19 patients, which was in contrast to previous studies. In addition, compared with other types of cancer patients, asymptomatic infections and mild cases among breast cancer patients made up a substantially larger proportion. Our results indicated that the clinical characteristics of breast cancer patients were milder than those of other types of cancer patients, but there were no significant differences in outcomes between the two groups. Frontiers Media S.A. 2020-10-21 /pmc/articles/PMC7609864/ /pubmed/33194660 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fonc.2020.570130 Text en Copyright © 2020 Zhang, Xie, Hubert, Yu, Zhang, Lei, Deng, Chen and Li. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
spellingShingle Oncology
Zhang, Bo
Xie, Rong
Hubert, Shawna M.
Yu, Yuanhang
Zhang, Yue
Lei, Xiao
Deng, Wei
Chen, Jianying
Li, Yunqiao
Characteristics and Outcomes of 35 Breast Cancer Patients Infected With COVID-19
title Characteristics and Outcomes of 35 Breast Cancer Patients Infected With COVID-19
title_full Characteristics and Outcomes of 35 Breast Cancer Patients Infected With COVID-19
title_fullStr Characteristics and Outcomes of 35 Breast Cancer Patients Infected With COVID-19
title_full_unstemmed Characteristics and Outcomes of 35 Breast Cancer Patients Infected With COVID-19
title_short Characteristics and Outcomes of 35 Breast Cancer Patients Infected With COVID-19
title_sort characteristics and outcomes of 35 breast cancer patients infected with covid-19
topic Oncology
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7609864/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33194660
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fonc.2020.570130
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