Article ; Online: Dying from cancer with COVID-19: age, sex, socio-economic status, and comorbidities.
Acta oncologica (Stockholm, Sweden)
2021 Volume 60, Issue 8, Page(s) 1019–1024
Abstract: ... deaths regarding age, sex, socio-economic status, comorbidities, and access to palliative care ... 19 diagnosis were older, more often male, and had more comorbidities. A COVID-19 diagnosis negatively ... Background: The COVID-19 pandemic has caused excess deaths (all causes) and has disproportionately ...
| Abstract | Background: The COVID-19 pandemic has caused excess deaths (all causes) and has disproportionately affected the elderly with certain characteristics. Objectives: To study how COVID-19 affected cancer deaths regarding age, sex, socio-economic status, comorbidities, and access to palliative care. An additional objective was to study changes in place of care and death. Material and methods: A descriptive, retrospective study of all cancer patients who died during March-May 2020 in the Stockholm region, Results: There were excess cancer deaths compared with 2016-2019 ( Conclusion: Cancer patients dying with a COVID-19 diagnosis were older, more often male, and had more comorbidities. A COVID-19 diagnosis negatively affected the probability of being admitted to specialized palliative care and increased the likelihood of dying in an acute hospital. |
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| MeSH term(s) | Aged ; COVID-19 ; COVID-19 Testing ; Comorbidity ; Economic Status ; Humans ; Neoplasms/epidemiology ; Pandemics ; Retrospective Studies ; SARS-CoV-2 | |||||
| Language | English | |||||
| Publishing date | 2021-06-08 | |||||
| Publishing country | England | |||||
| Document type | Journal Article | |||||
| ZDB-ID | 896449-x | |||||
| ISSN | 1651-226X ; 0349-652X ; 0284-186X ; 1100-1704 | |||||
| ISSN (online) | 1651-226X | |||||
| ISSN | 0349-652X ; 0284-186X ; 1100-1704 | |||||
| DOI | 10.1080/0284186X.2021.1934536 | |||||
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