id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt cord-334881-x9nxxled Di Lorenzo, Giuseppe COVID 19 therapies and anti-cancer drugs: A systematic review of recent literature 2020-05-21 .txt text/plain 3248 186 45 BACKGROUND: It is reasonable to think that cancer patients undergoing chemotherapy, targeted therapy or immunotherapy could have a more aggressive course if positive for Coronavirus disease CoV-2 (COVID19). METHODS: We conducted a literature review on https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/, https://scholar.google.com, www.arxiv.org, www.biorxiv.org, of all articles published using the keywords COVID-19 therapy or treatment and cancer until May 2, 2020. Sarilumab is an interleukin-6 (IL-6) receptor antagonist indicated for the treatment of adult patients with moderately to severely active rheumatoid arthritis who have had an inadequate response or intolerance to one or more disease-modifying antirheumatic drugs (DMARDs) (53). AIFA has licensed a randomized phase 2 trial to evaluate the efficacy, safety and tolerability of J o u r n a l P r e -p r o o f baricitinib in addition to the usual treatment in patients with pneumonia in COVID-19 (Barcivid study) (74). ./cache/cord-334881-x9nxxled.txt ./txt/cord-334881-x9nxxled.txt