Lance Turtle, Sarah Elliot, Thomas M Drake, Mathew Thorpe, Emma G Khoury, William Greenhalf, Hayley E Hardwick, Gary Leeming, Andy Law, Wilna Oosthuyzen, Riinu Pius, Catherine A Shaw, J Kenneth Baillie, Peter J M Openshaw, Annemarie B Docherty, Malcolm G Semple, Ewen M Harrison, Carlo Palmieri
BACKGROUND: Patients with cancer are at greater risk of dying from COVID-19 than many other patient groups. However, how this risk evolved during the pandemic remains unclear. We aimed to determine, on the basis of the UK national pandemic protocol, how factors influencing hospital mortality from COVID-19 could differentially affect patients undergoing cancer treatment. We also examined changes in hospital mortality and escalation of care in patients on cancer treatment during the first 2 years of the COVID-19 pandemic in the UK...
April 12, 2024: Lancet Oncology