Association of Cancer History with COVID-19 Risk and Outcomes among Older Postmenopausal Women: Results from the Women’s Health Initiative
These findings may assure cancer survivors that their diagnosis alone does not increase their risk of COVID-19 and suggest that older women with a history of cancer may have similar risks of COVID-19 outcomes compared with their noncancer counterparts.
Authors
- Trang VoPham (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4787-1201)
- Shawna Follis (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5617-3619)
- Aladdin H. Shadyab (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9693-0522)
- Lorena García (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9976-761X)
- Electra D. Paskett (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8247-8299)
- Garnet L. Anderson (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5087-7837)
- Diane Von Ah (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3189-1307)
- Eric McLaughlin (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2200-5905)
- Chloe M. Hery (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4985-5646)
- Holly Ruth Harris (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2572-6727)
- Xiaochen Zhang (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3086-1285)
Institutions
- Palo Alto University (US)
- University of California San Diego (US)
- Fred Hutch Cancer Center (US)
- Stanford Health Care (US)
- Human Longevity (United States) (US)
- Stanford Medicine (US)
- The Ohio State University (US)
- University of California, Davis (US)
- Stanford University (US)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Cancer Epidemiology Biomarkers & Prevention
- Published
- 2025-05-20
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1158/1055-9965.epi-24-1682
- Primary Topic
- COVID-19 and healthcare impacts
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00
Funders
- National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute