Is Cancer significant Comorbid Condition in COVID 19 Infected Patients? -A Retrospective Analysis Experienced in a Tertiary Care Center in Eastern India
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Abstract
Objectives
Patients with a history of active malignancy were initially thought to be at a higher risk of having COVID-19, although available data are conflicting due to economic stress, malnutrition, fear of hospitalization or treatment discontinuation. A cohort-based study was undertaken in Indian regional cancer centre to understand cancer-covid link in patients.
Study Design
A total of 1565 asymptomatic patients were admitted based on thermal screening and evaluation from the screening form. The COVID 19 has been checked by RT-PCR method and the COVID 19 positive patients were transferred to government allocated COVID 19 hospital. The COVID 19 negative patients were transferred to general ward for further cancer treatment.
Method
Post COVID 19 testing, positive patients were transferred to COVID hospital and their outcomes were analyzed and correlated with patient’s age gender and cancer stages.
Result
Out of 1565 patients, 54 patients (3.4%) tested positive. Most of the patients are in 45-59 years age group. As female patients admitted were more in number than males, so predominance of disease is higher in female. 3 patients were symptomatic after admission and 2 were severe and were admitted to the ICU with ventilations. 8 patients died in Cancer and one patient died in COVID 19.
Conclusions
As only 3.4% patients tested positive and only one patient out of 54 had died, so cancer is found not to be a comorbid condition towards COVID 19 patients in the Indian population studied.
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SciScore for 10.1101/2022.05.14.22275079: (What is this?)
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Table 1: Rigor
Ethics not detected. Sex as a biological variable not detected. Randomization not detected. Blinding not detected. Power Analysis not detected. Table 2: Resources
Software and Algorithms Sentences Resources Validation was performed biannually according to the ICMR guidelines by Intra-laboratory testing and by External Quality Assurance Program (EQAS) as provided to us by ICMR. Quality Assurance Programsuggested: NoneResults from OddPub: We did not detect open data. We also did not detect open code. Researchers are encouraged to share open data when possible (see Nature blog).
Results from LimitationRecognizer: An explicit section about the limitations of the techniques employed in this study was not found. We …SciScore for 10.1101/2022.05.14.22275079: (What is this?)
Please note, not all rigor criteria are appropriate for all manuscripts.
Table 1: Rigor
Ethics not detected. Sex as a biological variable not detected. Randomization not detected. Blinding not detected. Power Analysis not detected. Table 2: Resources
Software and Algorithms Sentences Resources Validation was performed biannually according to the ICMR guidelines by Intra-laboratory testing and by External Quality Assurance Program (EQAS) as provided to us by ICMR. Quality Assurance Programsuggested: NoneResults from OddPub: We did not detect open data. We also did not detect open code. Researchers are encouraged to share open data when possible (see Nature blog).
Results from LimitationRecognizer: An explicit section about the limitations of the techniques employed in this study was not found. We encourage authors to address study limitations.Results from TrialIdentifier: No clinical trial numbers were referenced.
Results from Barzooka: We did not find any issues relating to the usage of bar graphs.
Results from JetFighter: We did not find any issues relating to colormaps.
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- No protocol registration statement was detected.
Results from scite Reference Check: We found no unreliable references.
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