Éva Kocsmár, Ildikó Kocsmár, Flóra Elamin, Laura Pápai, Ákos Jakab, Tibor Várkonyi, Tibor Glasz, Gergely Rácz, Adrián Pesti, Krisztina Danics, András Kiss, Gergely Röst, Éva Belicza, Zsuzsa Schaff, Gábor Lotz
COVID-19, caused by SARS-CoV-2, manifests with differing severity across distinct patient subgroups, with outcomes influenced by underlying comorbidities such as cancer, which may cause functional and compositional alterations of the immune system during tumor progression. We aimed to investigate the association of SARS-CoV-2 infection and its complications with cancer in a large autopsy series and the role of COVID-19 in the fatal sequence leading to death. A total of 2641 adult autopsies were investigated, 539 of these were positive for SARS-CoV-2...
April 30, 2024: GeroScience