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THURSDAY, Could 5, 2022 (HealthDay Information)

When you have a historical past of most cancers, concern not — researchers report that you simply aren’t at elevated threat for extreme COVID-19.

However the identical will not be true for present most cancers sufferers.

Within the research, the researchers analyzed the digital well being data of practically 272,000 adults recognized with COVID-19 between June 1, 2020, and Dec. 31, 2020, at greater than 700 hospitals and 700 clinics in the US.

Of these sufferers, practically 18,500 had a historical past of not less than one most cancers analysis, together with greater than 10,400 who had been recognized with most cancers inside one 12 months earlier than their COVID-19 an infection.

“We discovered that latest most cancers diagnoses had been related to a 17% elevated threat for loss of life and 10% elevated threat for hospitalization,” stated research co-lead writer Youngran Kim, from McGovern Medical Faculty on the College of Texas Well being Science Heart at Houston.

“Nonetheless, a historical past of most cancers multiple 12 months earlier than COVID-19 analysis was not considerably related to elevated mortality or hospitalization. Our research additionally confirmed different threat elements and racial disparities in COVID-19 outcomes amongst COVID-19 sufferers with most cancers,” Kim stated in a middle information launch.

Whereas latest most cancers sufferers had been extra doubtless to be hospitalized and to die inside 30 days of COVID-19 analysis, they weren’t considerably extra doubtless to find yourself in intensive care or to be placed on a ventilator than sufferers with out most cancers.

Amongst sufferers with a latest most cancers analysis, these with superior blood, liver and lung cancers had a very excessive threat for worse COVID-19 outcomes, and people who had obtained radiation or chemotherapy therapies inside three months earlier than coronavirus an infection additionally had a better threat of loss of life after COVID analysis, in accordance to the research printed Could 4 within the journal PLOS ONE.

It additionally discovered that most cancers sufferers who had been older, Black, on Medicare and/or lived within the South had been considerably extra doubtless to die after COVID-19 analysis, and that diabetes and coronary heart, liver, and kidney illness had been additionally related to an elevated threat of loss of life after an infection.

“On this explicit research, we not solely confirmed basic findings about worse COVID-19 outcomes for most cancers sufferers, however elaborated on subgroups of most cancers sufferers that weren’t overly impacted,” stated research co-lead writer Liang Zhu, a researcher at UTHealth Houston.

“This is a crucial discovering for the well being care system, as they intervene primarily based on the suitable threat evaluation and for most cancers survivors to perceive their particular dangers related to COVID-19,” Zhu stated within the launch. “Because the pandemic evolves, nevertheless, we may have to revisit this matter at a future time.”

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For extra on most cancers sufferers and COVID-19, see the U.S. Nationwide Cancer Institute.

SOURCES College of Texas Well being Science Heart at Houston, information launch, Could 4, 2022

By Robert Preidt HealthDay Reporter