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Similarities and perspectives on the two C’s—Cancer and COVID‐19
Author(s) -
Thachil Jecko,
Khorana Alok,
Carrier Marc
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
journal of thrombosis and haemostasis
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.947
H-Index - 178
eISSN - 1538-7836
pISSN - 1538-7933
DOI - 10.1111/jth.15294
Subject(s) - covid-19 , pandemic , battle , hemostasis , medicine , thrombosis , cancer , intensive care medicine , health care , political science , virology , geography , outbreak , disease , archaeology , infectious disease (medical specialty) , law
COVID‐19 continues to dominate the health‐care burden in the twenty‐first century. While health‐care professionals around the world try their best to minimize the mortality from this pandemic, we also continue to battle the high mortality from different types of cancer. For the hemostasis and thrombosis specialist, these two conditions present some unusual similarities including the high rate of thrombosis and marked elevation of D‐dimers. In this forum article, we discuss these similarities and provide some considerations for future research and therapeutic trials.