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Comment
. 2021 Jul:152:245-247.
doi: 10.1016/j.ejca.2021.04.011. Epub 2021 May 15.

Re: A systematic review and meta-analysis: The effect of active cancer treatment on severity of COVID-19: Clinical outcomes of SARS-CoV-2-infected cancer patients undergoing surgery

Caifeng Zou  1 , Yuting Huang  2 , Yuchi Ma  3 , Feng Yang  4 , Deliang Fu  1
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Re: A systematic review and meta-analysis: The effect of active cancer treatment on severity of COVID-19: Clinical outcomes of SARS-CoV-2-infected cancer patients undergoing surgery

Caifeng Zou et al. Eur J Cancer. 2021 Jul.
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Conflict of interest statement The authors declare no conflict of interest.

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Forestplots of risks of severe COVID-19 and death due to cancer surgery. (a) Unadjusted risk of severe COVID-19, (b) unadjusted risk of death, (c) adjusted risk of severe COVID-19, and (d) adjusted risk of death. ∗ Adjusted variables for the study by Dai et al. included age, sex, diabetes, hypertension, smoking, and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. ∗ Adjusted variables for the study by Kuderer et al. included age, sex, smoking status, and obesity. ∗ Adjusted Variables for the COVIDSurg study included age, sex, American Society of Anaesthesiologists grade, comorbidities, urgency/grade/timing of surgery. CI, confidence interval; IV, inverse variance; SE, standard error.
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