Cancer guidelines during the COVID-19 pandemic

According to an analysis of Italian patients published in March, 20% of those who died from COVID-19 in the country had active cancer. “The blood cancers often directly compromise the immune system, so those patients are probably most at risk, whereas cancers such as colon cancer, breast cancer, and lung cancer do not typically cause immune suppression that is not treatment-related.” [...]the Global Radiation Oncology Targeted Response emerged from an online discussion involving 121 contributors in March, 2020.