Abstract
Many articles have reported that cancer patients are more susceptible to
COVID-19 pneumonia and cancer patients with COVID-19 seem to be more
often tend to develop severe events. In these studies of infected cancer
patients, factors associated with a higher risk of developing severe
events included age, baseline fragility, and anti-tumor treatment.
However, specific reasons regarding why infected patients with cancer
have a higher probability of severe events compared to non-cancer
infected patients remain unclear. Thus, we sought to study one
particular factor to determine a potential associative effect:
differences in Computed tomography (CT) findings. In our study,we found
that cancer patients represent a special population which multiple lobes
of the lungs were more susceptible to infection by the SARS-CoV-2, and
thus were more likely to be transferred from mild illness to severe,
should be deserved more intensive attention during the SARS-CoV-2
pandemic.