Dataset Information

Assessment of Regional Variability in COVID-19 Outcomes Among Patients With Cancer in the United States.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

The COVID-19 pandemic has had a distinct spatiotemporal pattern in the United States. Patients with cancer are at higher risk of severe complications from COVID-19, but it is not well known whether COVID-19 outcomes in this patient population were associated with geography.

Objective

To quantify spatiotemporal variation in COVID-19 outcomes among patients with cancer.

Design, setting, and participants

This registry-based retrospective cohort study included patients with a historical diagnosis of invasive malignant neoplasm and laboratory-confirmed SARS-CoV-2 infection between March and November 2020. Data were collected from cancer care delivery centers in the United States.