Utilization of COVID-19 treatments and clinical outcomes among patients with cancer: A COVID-19 and Cancer Consortium (CCC19) cohort study. Cancer discovery Rivera, D. R., Peters, S., Panagiotou, O. A., Shah, D. P., Kuderer, N. M., Hsu, C., Rubinstein, S. M., Lee, B. J., Choueiri, T. K., de Lima Lopes, G., Grivas, P., Painter, C. A., Rini, B. I., Thompson, M. A., Arcobello, J., Bakouny, Z., Doroshow, D. B., Egan, P. C., Farmakiotis, D., Fecher, L. A., Friese, C. R., Galsky, M. D., Goel, S., Gupta, S., Halfdanarson, T. R., Halmos, B., Hawley, J. E., Khaki, A. R., Lemmon, C. A., Mishra, S., Olszewski, A. J., Pennell, N. A., Puc, M. M., Revankar, S. G., Schapira, L., Schmidt, A., Schwartz, G. K., Shah, S. A., Wu, J. T., Xie, Z., Yeh, A. C., Zhu, H., Shyr, Y., Lyman, G. H., Warner, J. L. 2020

Abstract

Among 2,186 US adults with invasive cancer and laboratory-confirmed SARS-CoV-2 infection, we examined the association of COVID-19 treatments with 30-day all-cause mortality, and factors associated with treatment. Logistic regression with multiple adjustments (e.g., comorbidities, cancer status, baseline COVID-19 severity) was performed. Hydroxychloroquine with any other drug was associated with increased mortality versus treatment with any COVID-19 treatment other than hydroxychloroquine or untreated controls; this association was not present with hydroxychloroquine alone. Remdesivir had numerically reduced mortality versus untreated controls that did not reach statistical significance. Baseline COVID-19 severity was strongly associated with receipt of any treatment. Black patients were approximately half as likely to receive remdesivir as white patients. While observational studies can be limited by potential unmeasured confounding, our findings add to the emerging understanding of patterns of care for patients with cancer and COVID-19 and support evaluation of emerging treatments through prospective controlled trials inclusive of this population.

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