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Why are cancer patients with COVID-19 more likely to develop severe events?
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  • Jianping Bi,
  • Yajie Wang,
  • Tingting Nie,
  • Vivek Verma,
  • Guoliang Pi,
  • Changchun Chen,
  • Guowu Jiang,
  • Guang Han
Jianping Bi
Hubei Cancer Hospital

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Yajie Wang
People's Hospital of Dongxihu District
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Tingting Nie
Hubei Cancer Hospital
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Vivek Verma
Allegheny General Hospital
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Guoliang Pi
Hubei Cancer Hospital
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Changchun Chen
Hubei Cancer Hospital
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Guowu Jiang
Hubei Cancer Hospital
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Guang Han
Hubei Cancer Hospital
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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.