When the SARS-CoV-2 outbreak began, there were significant fears that the virus might be incredibly dangerous for children with cancer. Childhood cancer treatment regimens often include a host of cytotoxic chemotherapies that result in immunosurpression, leaving these patients especially vulnerable to viral infections.
… “Both of these highlight the limitation of small data sets — but the signal from these is very reassuring in some aspects. This isn’t as overwhelming as we thought it would be,” said Dr Bhakta, who emphasized that the combination of smaller data sets is needed to make definitive conclusions. “We do have deaths in our data set; we are still analyzing [these] data to see whether there are risk groups within this childhood cancer community,” added Dr Bhakta.