id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt cord-337302-fpz2jfuj Abdihamid, Omar The Landscape of COVID-19 in Cancer Patients: Prevalence, Impacts, and Recommendations 2020-09-23 .txt text/plain 5958 357 48 21 Similar to cases seen during the MERS-outbreak where having cancer was identified as a risk factor for MERS-CoV mortality, the COVID-19 pandemic also poses threats to cancer patients. 23 In one of the early data by Yu et al published in JAMA Oncology, the infection rate of SARS-CoV-2 in cancer patients from Wuhan, China, was at 0.79% (12 of 1524 patients; 95% CI, 0.31.2%). 15 In a retrospective cohort study of 28 COVID-19infected cancer patients with laboratory-confirmed COVID-19 from three hospitals in China, a total of 15 (53.6%) patients had severe outcomes with a mortality rate of 28.6%. Patients' age, tumor type, underlying comorbidities, stage of the disease, and treatment type all affect the risk and outcomes of contracting SARS-CoV-2 in cancer patients. Clinical characteristics of COVID-19-infected cancer patients: a retrospective case study in three hospitals within Wuhan, China ./cache/cord-337302-fpz2jfuj.txt ./txt/cord-337302-fpz2jfuj.txt