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Clinical Characteristics, Racial Inequities, And Outcomes In Patients With Breast Cancer And Covid-19: A Covid-19 And Cancer Consortium (Ccc19) Cohort Study, Gayathri Nagaraj, Shaveta Vinayak, Ali Raza Khaki, Tianyi Sun, Nicole M. Kuderer, David M. Aboulafia, Jared D. Acoba, Joy Awosika, Ziad Bakouny, Nicole B. Balmaceda, Ting Bao, Babar Bashir, Stephanie Berg, Mehmet A. Bilen, Poorva Bindal, Sibel Blau, Brianne E. Bodin, Hala T. Borno, Cecilia Castellano, Horyun Choi, John Deeken, Aakash Desai, Natasha Edwin, Lawrence E. Feldman, Daniel B. Flora, Christopher R. Friese, Matthew D. Galsky, Cyndi J. Gonzalez, Petros Grivas, Shilpa Gupta, Marcy Haynam, Hannah Heilman, Dawn L. Hershman, Clara Hwang, Chinmay Jani, Sachin R. Jhawar, Monika Joshi, Virginia Kaklamani, Elizabeth J. Klein, Natalie Knox, Vadim S. Koshkin, Amit A. Kulkarni, Daniel H. Kwon, Chris Labaki, Philip E. Lammers, Kate I. Lathrop, Mark A. Lewis, Xuanyi Li, Gilbert De Lima Lopes, Gary H. Lyman, Della F. Makower, Abdul-Hai Mansoor, Merry-Jennifer Markham, Sandeep H. Mashru, Rana R. Mckay, Ian Messing, Vasil Mico, Rajani Nadkarni, Swathi Namburi, Ryan H. Nguyen, Taylor Kristian Nonato, Tracey Lynn O'Connor, Orestis A. Panagiotou, Kyu Park, Jaymin M. Patel, Kanishka Gopikabimal Patel, Jeffrey Peppercorn, Hyma Polimera, Matthew Puc, Yuan James Rao, Pedram Razavi, Sonya A. Reid, Jonathan W. Riess, Donna R. Rivera, Mark Robson, Suzanne J. Rose, Atlantis D. Russ, Lidia Schapira, Pankil K. Shah, M Kelly Shanahan, Lauren C. Shapiro, Melissa Smits, Daniel G. Stover, Mitrianna Streckfuss, Lisa Tachiki, Michael A. Thompson, Sara M. Tolaney, Lisa B. Weissmann, Grace Wilson, Michael T. Wotman, Elizabeth M. Wulff-Burchfield, Sanjay Mishra, Benjamin French, Jeremy L. Warner, Maryam B. Lustberg, Melissa K. Accordino, Dimpy P. Shah

Department of Medical Oncology Faculty Papers

BACKGROUND: Limited information is available for patients with breast cancer (BC) and coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), especially among underrepresented racial/ethnic populations.

METHODS: This is a COVID-19 and Cancer Consortium (CCC19) registry-based retrospective cohort study of females with active or history of BC and laboratory-confirmed severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus-2 (SARS-CoV-2) infection diagnosed between March 2020 and June 2021 in the US. Primary outcome was COVID-19 severity measured on a five-level ordinal scale, including none of the following complications, hospitalization, intensive care unit admission, mechanical ventilation, and all-cause mortality. Multivariable ordinal logistic regression model identified characteristics associated with COVID-19 severity.

RESULTS: …