id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt cord-282535-gnuhjs32 Cook, Gordon Real‐world assessment of the clinical impact of symptomatic infection with severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus (COVID‐19 disease) in patients with Multiple Myeloma receiving systemic anti‐cancer therapy. 2020-05-21 .txt text/plain 1301 68 50 title: Real‐world assessment of the clinical impact of symptomatic infection with severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus (COVID‐19 disease) in patients with Multiple Myeloma receiving systemic anti‐cancer therapy. . The UK index case was identified on the 31 st of January, 2020 and given the rapid spread and high mortality rate of COVID-19, it is imperative to define the impact on patients with co-existing medical conditions (3) . Multiple Myeloma (MM), the second most common haematological malignancy, is a cancer of the mature B-cell lineage and is associated with both cellular and humoral immune dysfunction that renders patients susceptible to infections, especially of the respiratory tract (4) (5) (6) (7) . This coupled with a median age at presentation of 70 years in a population with frequent co-existing medical conditions, means the outcomes of MM patients infected with COVID-19 warrants particular attention. ./cache/cord-282535-gnuhjs32.txt ./txt/cord-282535-gnuhjs32.txt