id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt cord-295742-d11ty5ed van Dam, Peter A. High mortality of cancer patients in times of SARS-Cov-2: do not generalize! 2020-08-10 .txt text/plain 1118 59 51 This is an important issue as in times limited of resources, the label "cancer with COVID-19" can compromise the access of intensive care (ICU) and outcome of patients dramatically in overwhelmed health care systems due to the outbreak of the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic. 4 The OpenSAFELY study, looking at factors associated with 5683 COVID-19-related hospital deaths in the linked electronic health records of 17 million adult NHS patients clearly showed that male gender (HR 1.99; 95% CI 1.80-2.10), age (with a very strong gradient), ethnicity (adjusted HR 1.71; 95% CI 1.44-2.02), uncontrolled diabetes (HR 2.26 95% CI: 2.18-2.56), obesity (with a very strong gradient) and various other medical conditions often had a higher impact on the probability to die of SARS-CoV-2 then cancer. High Mortality Rate in Cancer Patients With Symptoms of COVID-19 With or Without Detectable SARS-COV-2 on RT-PCR ./cache/cord-295742-d11ty5ed.txt ./txt/cord-295742-d11ty5ed.txt