Clinical characteristics, racial inequities, and outcomes in patients with breast cancer and COVID-19: a COVID-19 and cancer consortium (CCC19) cohort study
- Loma Linda University, United States
- Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, United States
- Stanford University, United States
- Vanderbilt University Medical Center, United States
- University of Washington, United States
- Virginia Mason Institute, United States
- University of Hawaii, United States
- University of Cincinnati, United States
- Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, United States
- University of Kansas Cancer Center, United States
- Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, United States
- Thomas Jefferson University, United States
- Loyola University Medical Center, United States
- Emory University, United States
- Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, United States
- Northwest Medical Specialties, United States
- Columbia University, United States
- University of California, San Francisco, United States
- Inova Schar Cancer Institute, United States
- Mayo Clinic, United States
- ThedaCare, United States
- University of Illinois Hospital & Health Sciences System, United States
- St. Elizabeth Healthcare, United States
- University of Michigan-Ann Arbor, United States
- Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, United States
- Cleveland Clinic, United States
- The Ohio State University, United States
- Henry Ford Hospital, United States
- Mount Auburn Hospital, United States
- Penn State Health St Joseph Cancer Center, United States
- The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, United States
- Brown University, United States
- Loyola University, United States
- University of Minnesota, United States
- Baptist Cancer Center, United States
- Intermountain Healthcare, United States
- University of Miami, United States
- Albert Einstein College of Medicine, United States
- Kaiser Permanente Northwest, United States
- University of Florida, United States
- University of California, San Diego, United States
- George Washington University, United States
- Hartford HealthCare Cancer Institute, United States
- Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center, United States
- University of California, Davis, United States
- Massachusetts General Hospital, United States
- Penn State Health St. Joseph Cancer Center, United States
- Virtua Health, United States
- National Cancer Institute, United States
- Stamford Hospital, United States
- METAvivor, United States
- ThedaCare Cancer Care, United States
- Advocate Aurora Health, United States
- Fred Hutchinson/University of Washington Cancer Consortium, United States
- Yale University, United States
Abstract
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: 1,383 female patient records with BC and COVID-19 were included in the analysis, the median age was 61 years, and median follow-up was 90 days. Multivariable analysis revealed higher odds of COVID-19 severity for older age (aOR per decade, 1.48 [95% CI, 1.32 -1.67]); Black patients (aOR 1.74; 95 CI 1.24-2.45), Asian Americans and Pacific Islander patients (aOR 3.40; 95 CI 1.70 - 6.79) and Other (aOR 2.97; 95 CI 1.71-5.17) racial/ethnic groups; worse ECOG performance status (ECOG PS ≥2: aOR, 7.78 [95% CI, 4.83 - 12.5]); pre-existing cardiovascular (aOR, 2.26 [95% CI, 1.63 - 3.15])/pulmonary comorbidities (aOR, 1.65 [95% CI, 1.20 - 2.29]); diabetes mellitus (aOR, 2.25 [95% CI, 1.66 - 3.04]); and active and progressing cancer (aOR, 12.5 [95% CI, 6.89 - 22.6]). Hispanic ethnicity, timing and type of anti-cancer therapy modalities were not significantly associated with worse COVID-19 outcomes. The total all-cause mortality and hospitalization rate for the entire cohort was 9% and 37%, respectively however, it varied according to the BC disease status.
Conclusions: Using one of the largest registries on cancer and COVID-19, we identified patient and BC related factors associated with worse COVID-19 outcomes. After adjusting for baseline characteristics, underrepresented racial/ethnic patients experienced worse outcomes compared to Non-Hispanic White patients.
Funding: This study was partly supported by National Cancer Institute grant number P30 CA068485 to Tianyi Sun, Sanjay Mishra, Benjamin French, Jeremy L. Warner; P30-CA046592 to Christopher R. Friese; P30 CA023100 for Rana R McKay; P30-CA054174 for Pankil K. Shah and Dimpy P. Shah; and the American Cancer Society and Hope Foundation for Cancer Research (MRSG-16-152-01 -CCE) and P30-CA054174 for Dimpy P. Shah. REDCap is developed and supported by Vanderbilt Institute for Clinical and Translational Research grant support (UL1 TR000445 from NCATS/NIH). The funding sources had no role in the writing of the manuscript or the decision to submit it for publication.
Clinical Trial Number: CCC19 registry is registered on ClinicalTrials.gov, NCT04354701.
Data availability
All datasets (with restriction of time variables to protect patient confidentiality) and code associated with the article are available at: https://datadryad.org/stash/dataset/doi:10.5061/dryad.1g1jwsv10
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National Cancer Institute (P30 CA068485)
- Tianyi Sun
- Sanjay Mishra
- Benjamin French
- Jeremy L Warner
National Cancer Institute (P30-CA046592)
- Christopher R Friese
National Cancer Institute (P30 CA023100)
- Rana R McKay
National Cancer Institute (P30-CA054174)
- Pankil K Shah
- Dimpy P Shah
American Cancer Society (MRSG-16-152-01 -CCE)
- Dimpy P Shah
The funders had no role in study design, data collection and interpretation, or the decision to submit the work for publication.
Ethics
Human subjects: This study was exempt from institutional review board (IRB) review (VUMC IRB#200467) and was approved by IRBs at participating sites per institutional policy. CCC19 registry is registered on ClinicalTrials.gov, NCT04354701.
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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
eLife 12:e82618.
https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.82618
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