Elsevier

Journal of Infection

Volume 81, Issue 2, August 2020, Pages 318-356
Journal of Infection

Letter to the Editor
Clinical characteristics and prognosis in cancer patients with COVID-19: A single center's retrospective study

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Highlights

  • We describe the demographics, clinical characteristics, and prognosis of cancer patients with COVID-19 infection.

  • Cancer patients had a high infection rate of SARS-CoV-2 and were easy to become severe or critical cases.

  • Among cancer patients with COVID-19, the numbers of neutrophil, NLR(ratio of neutrophil to lymphocyte, IL-6, LDH and PCT in the severe/critical group were significantly higher than those in the mild group.

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