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01-07-2020 | Breast Cancer | Letter to the Editor
Characteristics and outcomes of patients with breast cancer diagnosed with SARS-Cov-2 infection at an academic center in New York City
Authors:
Kevin Kalinsky, Melissa K. Accordino, Kristina Hosi, Jessica E. Hawley, Meghna S. Trivedi, Katherine D. Crew, Dawn L. Hershman
Published in:
Breast Cancer Research and Treatment
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Issue 1/2020
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Excerpt
Previous reports of patients with Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) showed higher severity of disease in cancer patients, including the intubation rate [
1]. These series focused on those with symptoms from COVID-19 requiring hospitalization, with lung cancer being the most frequent malignancy [
1,
2]. We report characteristics and outcomes of COVID-19 + patients with breast cancer (BC) at an academic center in New York City. …