دورية أكاديمية
SARS-CoV-2 Testing for Asymptomatic Patients with Cancer Prior and during Treatment: A Single Centre Experience
| العنوان: | SARS-CoV-2 Testing for Asymptomatic Patients with Cancer Prior and during Treatment: A Single Centre Experience |
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| المؤلفون: | Nicholas Meti, Houman Tahmasebi, Angela Leahey, Angela Boudreau, Alia Thawer, Janice Stewart, Paige Reason, Kirsty Albright, Jerome A. Leis, Kevin Katz, Matthew C. Cheung, Simron Singh |
| المصدر: | Current Oncology, Vol 28, Iss 1, Pp 278-282 (2021) |
| بيانات النشر: | MDPI AG, 2021. |
| سنة النشر: | 2021 |
| المجموعة: | LCC:Neoplasms. Tumors. Oncology. Including cancer and carcinogens |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: | n/a, Neoplasms. Tumors. Oncology. Including cancer and carcinogens, RC254-282 |
| الوصف: | Patients with cancer are more vulnerable to severe COVID-19. As a result, routine SARS-CoV-2 testing of asymptomatic patients with cancer is recommended prior to treatment. However, there is limited evidence of its clinical usefulness. The objective of this study is to evaluate the value of routine testing of asymptomatic patients with cancer. Asymptomatic patients with cancer attending Odette Cancer Centre (Toronto, ON, Canada) were tested for SARS-CoV-2 prior to and during treatment cycles. Results were compared to positivity rates of SARS-CoV-2 locally and provincially. All 890 asymptomatic patients tested negative. Positivity rates in the province were 1.5%, in hospital were 1.0%, and among OCC’s symptomatic cancer patients were 0% over the study period. Given our findings and the low SARS-CoV-2 community positivity rates, we recommend a dynamic testing model of asymptomatic patients that triggers testing during increasing community positivity rates of SARS-CoV-2. |
| نوع الوثيقة: | article |
| وصف الملف: | electronic resource |
| اللغة: | English |
| تدمد: | 1718-7729 1198-0052 |
| Relation: | https://www.mdpi.com/1718-7729/28/1/32; https://doaj.org/toc/1198-0052; https://doaj.org/toc/1718-7729 |
| DOI: | 10.3390/curroncol28010032 |
| URL الوصول: | https://doaj.org/article/c83aee2b60bd4823865c334d37be2992 |
| رقم الأكسشن: | edsdoj.83aee2b60bd4823865c334d37be2992 |
| قاعدة البيانات: | Directory of Open Access Journals |
Full Text Finder | تدمد: | 17187729 11980052 |
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| DOI: | 10.3390/curroncol28010032 |