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Wagner MJ, Hennessy C, Beeghly A, French B, Shah DP, Croessmann S, Vilar-Compte D, Ruiz-Garcia E, Ingham M, Schwartz GK, Painter CA, Chugh R, Fecher L, Park C, Zamulko O, Trent JC, Subbiah V, Khaki AR, Tachiki L, Nakasone ES, Loggers ET, Labaki C, Saliby RM, McKay RR, Ajmera A, Griffiths EA, Puzanov I, Tap WD, Hwang C, Tejwani S, Jhawar SR, Hayes-Lattin B, Wulff-Burchfield E, Kasi A, Reuben DY, Nagaraj G, Joshi M, Polimera H, Kulkarni AA, Esfahani K, Kwon DH, Paoluzzi L, Bilen MA, Durbin EB, Grivas P, Warner JL, and Davis EJ. Demographics, Outcomes, and Risk Factors for Patients with Sarcoma and COVID-19: A CCC19-Registry Based Retrospective Cohort Study. Cancers (Basel) 2022; 14(17).
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
9-5-2022
Publication Title
Cancers (Basel)
Abstract
BACKGROUND: Patients with sarcoma often require individualized treatment strategies and are likely to receive aggressive immunosuppressive therapies, which may place them at higher risk for severe COVID-19. We aimed to describe demographics, risk factors, and outcomes for patients with sarcoma and COVID-19.
METHODS: We performed a retrospective cohort study of patients with sarcoma and COVID-19 reported to the COVID-19 and Cancer Consortium (CCC19) registry (NCT04354701) from 17 March 2020 to 30 September 2021. Demographics, sarcoma histologic type, treatments, and COVID-19 outcomes were analyzed.
RESULTS: of 281 patients, 49% (n = 139) were hospitalized, 33% (n = 93) received supplemental oxygen, 11% (n = 31) were admitted to the ICU, and 6% (n = 16) received mechanical ventilation. A total of 23 (8%) died within 30 days of COVID-19 diagnosis and 44 (16%) died overall at the time of analysis. When evaluated by sarcoma subtype, patients with bone sarcoma and COVID-19 had a higher mortality rate than patients from a matched SEER cohort (13.5% vs 4.4%). Older age, poor performance status, recent systemic anti-cancer therapy, and lung metastases all contributed to higher COVID-19 severity.
CONCLUSIONS: Patients with sarcoma have high rates of severe COVID-19 and those with bone sarcoma may have the greatest risk of death.
PubMed ID
36077869
Volume
14
Issue
17
