Abstract

CAMACHO SOSA, Kirenia; RAMIREZ RODRIGUEZ, Doralys; ALONSO TRIANA, Lena  and  LA ROSA IZNAGA, David. Bibliographic review on COVID 19 in patients with lung cancer. Rev.Med.Electrón. [online]. 2021, vol.43, n.1, pp. 2942-2953.  Epub Feb 28, 2021. ISSN 1684-1824.

COVID-19 is a pandemic disease produced by SARS-CoV-2 virus; the group of patients with lung cancer is vulnerable to this disease because of presenting an acquired immune depression due to administered oncospecific treatments, leading to higher exposition to complications if the patient gets this terrible disease striking worldwide nowadays. The objective of this review was exposing the risk and complications affronted by patients suffering lung cancer with oncospecific treatment if they get infected by SARS-CoV-2. The authors carried out a systematic review of the main articles published in Spanish and English by Cuban and foreign authors in high impact journals around the world, information reported by the World Health Organization, INFOMED and the Ministry of Public Health of Cuba. It was concluded that patients with lung cancer are not at a higher risk of catching COVID-19 than general population; it does exist certain evidence of that these patients could suffer a more serious infection if they get the disease.

Keywords : COVID-19, SARS-CoV-2; lung cancer; bibliographic review.

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