An update on the overall epidemiology, clinical characteristics, and outcomes from the COVID-19 and Cancer Consortium (CCC19).

Authors

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Dimpy P Shah

University of Texas Health Science Center San Antonio, San Antonio, TX

Dimpy P Shah , Pankil Shah , Jeremy Lyle Warner , Gerald Batist , Christopher Ryan Friese , Elizabeth A. Griffiths , Clara Hwang , Kendra Vieira , Rana R. McKay , Ruben A. Mesa , Matthew Puc , Elizabeth M Robilotti , Erika Ruiz-Garcia , Andrew Jay Portuguese , Andrew Lachlan Schmidt , Lisa B. Weissmann , Trisha Michel Wise-Draper , Jill Barnholtz-Sloan , Solange Peters , Petros Grivas

Organizations

University of Texas Health Science Center San Antonio, San Antonio, TX, UT Health San Antonio, San Antonio, TX, Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center, Nashville, TN, Segal Cancer Centre-Jewish General Hospital, McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, Roswell Park Cancer Institute, Buffalo, NY, Henry Ford Health System, Detroit, MI, Brown University, Province, RI, University of California San Diego Health, La Jolla, CA, Virtua Health, Marlton, NJ, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY, Instituto Nacional de Cancerologia, Mexico City, Mexico, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, Liz Plummer Cancer Centre, Cairns and Hinterland Hospital and Health Service, Cairns, QLD, Australia, Mt Auburn Hosp, Cambridge, MA, University of Cincinnati Cancer Center, Cincinnati, OH, Case Comprehensive Cancer Center and Department of Population and Quantitative Health Sciences, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, Cleveland, OH, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Vaudois, Lausanne University, Lausanne, Switzerland, University of Washington and Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, WA

Research Funding

Other
U.S. National Institutes of Health

Background: Despite mitigation and treatment strategies, COVID-19 continues to negatively impact patients (pts) with cancer. Identifying factors that remain consistently associated with morbidity and mortality is critical for risk identification and care delivery. Methods: Using CCC19 registry data through 12/31/2021 we report clinical outcomes (30-day case fatality rate [CFR], mechanical ventilation use (MV), intensive care unit admission (ICU), and hospitalization) in adult pts with cancer and laboratory confirmed SARS-CoV-2, stratified by patient, cancer, and treatment-related factors. Results: In this cohort of 11,417 pts (with 4% reported vaccination prior to COVID-19), 55% required hospitalization, 15% ICU, 9% MV, and 12% died. Overall outcome rates remained similar for 2020 and 2021 (Table). Hydroxychloroquine was utilized in 11% and other anti-COVID-19 drugs (remdesivir, tocilizumab, convalescent plasma, and/or steroids) in 30%. Higher CFRs were observed in older age, males, Black race, smoking (14%), comorbidities (pulmonary [17%], diabetes mellitus [16%], cardiovascular [19%], renal [21%]), ECOG performance status 2+ (31%), co-infection (25%), especially fungal (35%), and initial presentation with severe COVID-19 (48%). Pts with hematologic malignancy, active/progressing cancer status, or receiving systemic anti-cancer therapy within 1-3 months prior to COVID-19 also had worse CFRs. CFRs were similar across anti-cancer modalities. Other outcomes (ICU, MV, hospitalization) followed similar distributions by pt characteristics. Conclusions: Unfavorable outcome rates continue to remain high over 2 years, despite fewer case reports in 2021 owing to multiple factors (e.g., pandemic dynamics, respondent fatigue, overwhelmed healthcare systems). Pts with specific socio-demographics, performance status, comorbidities, type and status of cancer, immunosuppressive therapies, and COVID-19 severity at presentation experienced worse COVID-19 severity; and these factors should be further examined through multivariable modeling. Understanding epidemiological features, patient and cancer-related factors, and impact of anti-COVID-19 interventions can help inform risk stratification and interpretation of results from clinical trials.


Hospitalization

(55%)
ICU

(15%)
MV

(9%)
30-d CFR

(12%)
Age (median, IQR)
69 (58-78)
69 (59-76)
68 (59-74)
73 (64-81)
Male sex
3195 (60%)
990 (19%)
623 (12%)
753 (14%)
Black race
1273 (64%)
375 (19%)
257 (13%)
288 (14%)
Solid tumor
4046 (51%)
1025 (13%)
616 (8%)
853 (11%)
Hematologic malignancy
1302 (63%)
449 (22%)
282 (14%)
278 (13%)
Active and progressing cancer status
1113 (70%)
307 (20%)
183 (12%)
418 (26%)
Systemic anti-cancer therapy within 1-3 months prior to COVID-19 diagnosis
560 (58%)
157 (16%)
99 (10%)
168 (17%)
Y2020
5083 (55%)
1422 (16%)
902 (10%)
1130 (12%)
Y2021
1129 (55%)
294 (15%)
139 (7%)
223 (11%)

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Abstract Details

Meeting

2022 ASCO Annual Meeting

Session Type

Poster Session

Session Title

Prevention, Risk Reduction, and Hereditary Cancer

Track

Prevention, Risk Reduction, and Genetics

Sub Track

Etiology/Epidemiology

Citation

J Clin Oncol 40, 2022 (suppl 16; abstr 10565)

DOI

10.1200/JCO.2022.40.16_suppl.10565

Abstract #

10565

Poster Bd #

441

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