Mortality-related risk factors of COVID-19: a systematic review and meta-analysis of 42 studies and 423,117 patients

ZG Dessie, T Zewotir - BMC infectious diseases, 2021 - Springer
Background Mortality rates of coronavirus disease-2019 (COVID-19) continue to rise across
the world. The impact of several risk factors on coronavirus mortality has been previously …

Systemic immunity in cancer

KJ Hiam-Galvez, BM Allen, MH Spitzer - Nature reviews cancer, 2021 - nature.com
Immunotherapy has revolutionized cancer treatment, but efficacy remains limited in most
clinical settings. Cancer is a systemic disease that induces many functional and …

Cancer incidence, mortality, years of life lost, years lived with disability, and disability-adjusted life years for 29 cancer groups from 2010 to 2019: a systematic analysis …

JM Kocarnik, K Compton, FE Dean, W Fu… - JAMA …, 2022 - jamanetwork.com
Importance The Global Burden of Diseases, Injuries, and Risk Factors Study 2019 (GBD
2019) provided systematic estimates of incidence, morbidity, and mortality to inform local …

COVID-19 infection in adult patients with hematological malignancies: a European Hematology Association Survey (EPICOVIDEHA)

L Pagano, J Salmanton-García, F Marchesi… - Journal of hematology & …, 2021 - Springer
Background Patients with hematological malignancies (HM) are at high risk of mortality from
SARS-CoV-2 disease 2019 (COVID-19). A better understanding of risk factors for adverse …

[HTML][HTML] Seroconversion rates following COVID-19 vaccination among patients with cancer

A Thakkar, JD Gonzalez-Lugo, N Goradia, R Gali… - Cancer cell, 2021 - cell.com
As COVID-19 adversely affects patients with cancer, prophylactic strategies are critically
needed. Using a validated antibody assay against SARS-CoV-2 spike protein, we …

Immune responses to two and three doses of the BNT162b2 mRNA vaccine in adults with solid tumors

RT Shroff, P Chalasani, R Wei, D Pennington… - Nature medicine, 2021 - nature.com
Vaccines against severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) have
shown high efficacy, but immunocompromised participants were excluded from controlled …

CD8+ T cells contribute to survival in patients with COVID-19 and hematologic cancer

EM Bange, NA Han, P Wileyto, JY Kim, S Gouma… - Nature medicine, 2021 - nature.com
Patients with cancer have high mortality from coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), and the
immune parameters that dictate clinical outcomes remain unknown. In a cohort of 100 …

Outcomes of patients with hematologic malignancies and COVID-19: a systematic review and meta-analysis of 3377 patients

A Vijenthira, IY Gong, TA Fox, S Booth… - Blood, The Journal …, 2020 - ashpublications.org
Outcomes for patients with hematologic malignancy infected with COVID-19 have not been
aggregated. The objective of this study was to perform a systematic review and meta …

Predictors of COVID‐19 severity: a literature review

B Gallo Marin, G Aghagoli, K Lavine… - Reviews in medical …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Summary The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID‐19) pandemic is a rapidly evolving global
emergency that continues to strain healthcare systems. Emerging research describes a …

COVID-19 prevalence and mortality in patients with cancer and the effect of primary tumour subtype and patient demographics: a prospective cohort study

LYW Lee, JB Cazier, T Starkey, SEW Briggs… - The Lancet …, 2020 - thelancet.com
Background Patients with cancer are purported to have poor COVID-19 outcomes. However,
cancer is a heterogeneous group of diseases, encompassing a spectrum of tumour …