Patients with blood cancers and COVID-19 have double the risk of death compared with general medical patients admitted to hospital at the same time, the largest study to date has shown. Data from 80 haemato-oncology patients from King’s College Hospital, London, also found that those undergoing intensive treatments had a four-fold higher risk of dying ...
Caution justified over intensive cancer therapy in pandemic: UK clinicians
By Emma Wilkinson
23 Jun 2020