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Systemic anti-cancer therapy and metastatic cancer are independent mortality risk factors during two uk waves of the covid-19 pandemic at university college london hospital

Wong, YNS; Sng, CCT; Ottaviani, D; Patel, G; Chowdhury, A; Earnshaw, I; Sinclair, A; ... Lee, AJX; + view all (2021) Systemic anti-cancer therapy and metastatic cancer are independent mortality risk factors during two uk waves of the covid-19 pandemic at university college london hospital. Cancers , 13 (23) , Article 6085. 10.3390/cancers13236085. Green open access

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Abstract

An increased mortality risk was observed in patients with cancer during the first wave of COVID-19. Here, we describe determinants of mortality in patients with solid cancer comparing the first and second waves of COVID-19. A retrospective analysis encompassing two waves of COVID-19 (March–May 2020; December 2020–February 2021) was performed. 207 patients with cancer were matched to 452 patients without cancer. Patient demographics and oncological variables such as cancer subtype, staging and anti-cancer treatment were evaluated for association with COVID-19 mortality. Overall mortality was lower in wave two compared to wave one, HR 0.41 (95% CI: 0.30–0.56). In patients with cancer, mortality was 43.6% in wave one and 15.9% in wave two. In hospitalized patients, after adjusting for age, ethnicity and co-morbidities, a history of cancer was associated with increased mortality in wave one but not wave two. In summary, the second UK wave of COVID-19 is associated with lower mortality in hospitalized patients. A history of solid cancer was not associated with increased mortality despite the dominance of the more transmissible B.1.1.7 SARS-CoV-2 variant. In both waves, metastatic disease and systemic anti-cancer treatment appeared to be independent risk factors for death within the combined cancer cohort.

Type: Article
Title: Systemic anti-cancer therapy and metastatic cancer are independent mortality risk factors during two uk waves of the covid-19 pandemic at university college london hospital
Open access status: An open access version is available from UCL Discovery
DOI: 10.3390/cancers13236085
Publisher version: https://doi.org/10.3390/cancers13236085
Language: English
Additional information: This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
Keywords: COVID-19; SARS-CoV-2 infection; solid cancer; risk factors; systemic anti-cancer therapy; co-morbidity; second wave; alpha variant; B.1.1.7
UCL classification: UCL
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Medical Sciences
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Medical Sciences > Cancer Institute
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Medical Sciences > Cancer Institute > CRUK Cancer Trials Centre
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Medical Sciences > Cancer Institute > Research Department of Oncology
URI: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10139936
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