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. 2020 Apr 24;37(6):51.
doi: 10.1007/s12032-020-01376-8.

Lymphopenia that may develop in patients treated with temozolomide and immune control check-point inhibitor may be a high risk for mortality during the COVID-19 outbreak

Ozgur Tanriverdi  1   2   3
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Lymphopenia that may develop in patients treated with temozolomide and immune control check-point inhibitor may be a high risk for mortality during the COVID-19 outbreak

Ozgur Tanriverdi. Med Oncol. .

Abstract

As we know more about the clinical and laboratory features of COVID-19, which is now accepted as a pandemic, many questions have been raised about how to manage and monitor the treatment of cancer patients. It was determined that the incidence of lymphopenia increased in COVID-19 and there was a significant relationship between lymphopenia and mortality. This can be thought of as an unresponsive problem in how to maintain anti-cancer drugs that cause lymphopenia. This article was written for a hypothetical approach in cancer patients diagnosed with COVID-19 in order to be an idea of collecting data for treatment with anti-cancer drugs that cause lymphopenia.

Keywords: COVID- 19; Cancer patients; Lymphopenia; Mortality.

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Conflict of interest statement

The author declare that they have no conflict of interest.

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