According to the expert, the extremely toxic treatment that patients with oncology receive is fraught with many complications, as it weakens the body's resources.
Therefore, it will be extremely difficult for the body of a patient with cancer to cope with a coronavirus infection, she noted.
“Indeed, our patients can safely be considered a risk group. Chinese colleagues, even though with the help of a relatively small number of patients with coronavirus who had cancer, found that the frequency of serious complications (up to death) in our patients is five times higher than those who never had a malignant tumor, ” told Dengina.
The full version of the interview is in the material RT.