- Pancreatic Cancer: 67%
- Lung Cancer: 55%
- Colorectal Cancer: 38%
- Upper Gastrointestinal Cancer: 38%
- Gynecological Malignancies: 38% 
- Genitourinary Cancer: 15% 
- Breast Cancer: 14% 


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In a retrospective study, 218 COVID-19 patients with cancer were identified. Among these patients, 75% were diagnosed with solid tumors, while the other 25% had hematologic malignancies. This cohort was 58% male and 42% female and predominantly consisted of adult patients, with a median age of 69 years. At the time of analysis, 28% of the patients had died from complications arising from coronavirus.

COVID-19 Patients with Cancer In New York City

Mehta, V., Goel, S., Kabarriti, R., Cole, D., Goldfinger, M., Acuna-Villaorduna, A., ... & Gartrell, B. A. (2020). Case fatality rate of cancer patients with COVID-19 in a New York hospital system. Cancer discovery.
DOI: 10.1158/2159-8290.CD-20-0516
https://cancerdiscovery.aacrjournals.org/content/early/2020/05/05/2159-8290.CD-20-0516.abstract

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