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Department of Medical Oncology, Universitary Ramón y Cajal Hospital, Madrid, Spain
Ainara Soria is at Hospital Universitario Ramón Y Cajal in Madrid, Spain. Dr. Soria is highly rated in 1 condition, according to our data. Her top areas of expertise are Melanoma, Reflux Nephropathy, Head and Neck Squamous Cell Carcinoma, and Pneumonia.
 Review Article   
								
																Impact of Covid-19 in Cancer Patients Treated with Immunotherapy: A Review 
																Author(s): Cristina Saavedra*, Jorge Esteban, Lucía Sanz and Ainara Soria             
								
																
						 COVID-19 pandemic has been a devastating disease worldwide. Although an important number of young healthy
people have been affected, elderly, comorbid and immunosuppressed patients have been especially compromised.
Cancer patients usually share several of these features, being considered high risk population.
Limited reliable information about cancer patients and COVID-19 are available, especially concerning to the risk that
oncological therapies could involve. Immunotherapy is a novel therapy extensively used in oncology. Even though it is
not a myelosuppressive treatment, its safety use in this context is unknown. Immunotherapy boosts immune system,
mainly cytotoxic T cell response. This suggests that could have a favourable role in viral elimination. However,
concerns about a detrimental influence have been discuss in oncological community. Most severe COVID-19 patients
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																DOI:
								10.35248/2161-0495.20.10.449