Inpatient hospitalization, mortality high among patients with cancer, COVID-19

ABSTRACT

Patients with cancer who contracted COVID-19 had high risk for inpatient hospital admission and death, according to study results. "COVID-19 in patients with solid tumors and hematologic malignancies undergoing active therapy is associated with poor outcomes, including a high risk [for] inpatient mortality," Alok A. Khorana, MD, professor of medicine at Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine, told HemOnc Today. The Leukemia b Lymphoma Society encourages all patients with blood cancer to get vaccinated because the side-effect profile of vaccination is no different for them than the general population.