COVID-19 and cancer: Looking for evidence.

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

Who cites it

9 citing papers in PubMed, 3 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.

1. The impact of cancer on the severity of disease in patients affected with COVID-19: an umbrella review and meta-meta-analysis of systematic reviews and meta-analyses involving 1,064,476 participants.Clinical and experimental medicine · 2023
   Pooled it
2. Effects of SARS-CoV-2 infections in patients with cancer on mortality, ICU admission and incidence: a systematic review with meta-analysis involving 709,908 participants and 31,732 cancer patients.Journal of cancer research and clinical oncology · 2023
   Pooled it
3. Effects of cancer on patients with COVID-19: a systematic review and meta-analysis of 63,019 participants.Cancer biology & medicine · 2021
   Pooled it
4. Coexistence of malignancy and tuberculosis: is it double disease or double hit related to COVID-19? - Experience from a tertiary care center.International journal of clinical and experimental pathology · 2023
   Article
5. A pyramid model to describe changing decision making under high uncertainty during the COVID-19 pandemic.BMJ global health · 2022
   Review
6. Differences in the Impact of COVID-19 on Pathology Laboratories and Cancer Diagnosis in Girona.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2021
   Observational
7. SARS-CoV-2 Infection in Cancer Patients: Effects on Disease Outcomes and Patient Prognosis.Cancers · 2020
   Review
8. Surgical oncology in the pandemic. Lessons learned and future perspectives.European journal of surgical oncology : the journal of the European Society of Surgical Oncology and the British Association of Surgical Oncology · 2020
   Article
9. Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on the Treatment of Cancer Patients at a Hospital in Peru.Cancer control : journal of the Moffitt Cancer Center
   Article

Corrections and comments

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Authors and funding

1 author.

Funding

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Abstract

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