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Does Cancer Treatment Increase COVID-19 Risk? – Cancer Health Treatment News
Recent studies suggest chemotherapy and immunotherapy are not linked to more severe COVID-19.
People living with cancer and their doctors have been concerned that cancer treatment, especially chemotherapy, could raise the risk of more severe COVID-19, but recent research helps allay such fears.
Many chemotherapy drugs kill immune system white blood cells, leaving people less able to fight off infections. Early in the pandemic, immune suppression was identified as a risk factor for severe COVID-19 in China, and studies in other hard-hit epicenters showed that people with cancer—in partic…
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