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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2022 Aug 4.
Published in final edited form as: Int J Cancer. 2022 Jul 19;151(11):1913–1924. doi: 10.1002/ijc.34202

Table 1.

Baseline patient, cancer, immune status, and anti-cancer therapy characteristics

N=87

Age (years) median (range) 12 (0–24)
Sex, n (%)
Male 48 (55)
Female 39 (45)
Ethnicity, n (%)
Hispanic 64 (74)
Non-Hispanic 23 (26)
Weight status
Overweight 14 (16)
Obese 28 (32)
Lean 45 (52)
Cancer, n (%)
Hem n (%) 63 (72)
 ALL 53
 AML 2
 Hodgkin 2
 NHL 2
 Other 4
Non-Hem n (%) 24 (28)
 Brain 3
 Sarcoma 7
 Neuroblastoma 8
 Wilms 3
 Retinoblastoma 1
 Other 2
Therapy, n (%)
Chemo 64 (74)
HSCT 12 (14)
CAR 7 (8)
CAR & HSCT 4 (4)
Chemotherapy intensity (n=64) a
Intense 29
Non-intense 35
HSCT type (n=16)
Allogeneic 10
Autologous 6
Days since therapy, median(range) b
HSCT 305 (−39–3939)
CAR 629 (21–2142)
Steroids c , n (%) 18 (21)
Anthracyclines, n (%) 65 (75)
Neutropenia d , n (%) 14 (16)
Lymphopenia e , n (%) 35 (40)
Any Comorbidity, n (%) 51 (59)
Neurological 14
Cardiac 9
Pulmonary 5
Renal 4
Endocrine 4
Infectionf 8
Gastrointestinal 10
Other 19
GVHD
Acute 1
Chronic 2
Immune status (allo-HSCT, n=9) g
Lymphopenia 0
Neutropenia 0
CD4<200 0
Immune status (CAR, n=8) g
Lymphopenia 3
Neutropenia 0
CD4<200 2
B-cell aplasia 7
a

Intense: patients in the midst of a highly myelosuppressive phase of chemotherapy at the time of COVID-19 infection.

b

Days: time interval between the date of last anti-cancer therapy (HSCT or CAR) and the date of the first positive COVID-19 PCR.

c

Received systemic steroids (not including steroids given as part of COVID-19 management) within two weeks prior to the date of COVID-19 diagnosis.

d

Absolute neutrophil count <500.

e

Absolute lymphocyte count <500.

f

Includes 4 patients with non-COVID viral infection and 4 patients with fungal infection.

g

Patients who had received both HSCT and CAR were classified as HSCT or CAR based on the last anti-cancer therapy prior to COVID-19 infection.