A new study finds 13% of patients who had cancer that was either active or in remission died within 30 days of their coronavirus diagnoses
In the study, conducted by an international group of researchers and published online by the Lancet, researchers looked at data on 928 Covid-19 patients in the U.S.
, Canada and Spain who had cancer that was either active or in remission. Thirteen percent of those patients died within 30 days of their Covid-19 diagnosis, according to the study. In contrast, the case...
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