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ReviewJournal of personalized medicine2022

COVID-19, Mucormycosis and Cancer: The Triple Threat-Hypothesis or Reality?

Ishika Mahajan, Aruni Ghose, Deepika Gupta, Manasi Manasvi, Saisha Bhandari, Aparimita Das, Elisabet Sanchez, Stergios Boussios

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Review in Journal of personalized medicine, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
5citing papers in PubMed
1.0field-weighted citation impact, top 23% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

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.

2 · The registry

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.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

5 citing papers in PubMed, 10 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

8 authors at 8 institutions in 2 countries.

Ishika MahajanDepartment of Medical Oncology, Apollo Cancer Centre, Chennai 600001, India.ORCID 0000-0003-1640-7342
Aruni GhoseDepartment of Medical Oncology, Barts Cancer Centre, St. Bartholomew's Hospital, Barts Health NHS Trust, London KT1 2EE, UK.ORCID 0000-0001-8332-8033
Deepika GuptaMicrobiology, College of Medicine and Sagore Dutta Hospital, Kolkata 700001, India.
Manasi ManasviInternal Medicine, Kasturba Medical College, Mangalore 574142, India.ORCID 0000-0001-7170-4476
Saisha BhandariInternal Medicine, Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education and Research, Chandigarh 133301, India.
Aparimita DasFaculty of Allied Health Sciences, Chettinad Academy of Research and Education, Chennai 600001, India.
Elisabet SanchezDepartment of Medical Oncology, Medway NHS Foundation Trust, Windmill Road, Gillingham ME7 5NY, UK.
Stergios BoussiosDepartment of Medical Oncology, Medway NHS Foundation Trust, Windmill Road, Gillingham ME7 5NY, UK.ORCID 0000-0002-2512-6131
Apollo Proton Cancer Centre · INChettinad Academy of Research and Education · INCollege of Medicine & Sagore Dutta Hospital · INKasturba Medical College, Mangalore · INKing's College London · GBMedway NHS Foundation Trust · GBPost Graduate Institute of Medical Education and Research · INSt Bartholomew's Hospital · GB

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

COVID-19 has been responsible for widespread morbidity and mortality worldwide. Invasive mucormycosis has death rates scaling 80%. India, one of the countries hit worst by the pandemic, is also a hotbed with the highest death rates for mucormycosis. Cancer, a ubiquitously present menace, also contributes to higher case fatality rates. All three entities studied here are individual, massive healthcare threats. The danger of one disease predisposing to the other, the poor performance status of patients with all three diseases, the impact of therapeutics for one disease on the pathology and therapy of the others all warrant physicians having a better understanding of the interplay. This is imperative so as to effectively establish control over the individual patient and population health. It is important to understand the interactions to effectively manage all three entities together to reduce overall morbidity. In this review article, we search for an inter-relationship between the COVID-19 pandemic, emerging mucormycosis, and the global giant, cancer.

Indexed as

cancerCOVID-19COVID-associated mucormycosisdiabetesimmunosuppressionmucormycosissteroids

Identifiers

PMID35887616
PMCPMC9320339
OpenAlexW4285009733

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