The Impact of Covid on The Survival Rate of Cancer Patients. Single Center Study At Moewardi Hospital Indonesia
Widyanti Soewoto,
Ida Bagus Budhi Surya Adnyana,
Muhammad Fahmi Salafuddin,
Muhammad David Perdana Putra,
Galih Santoso Putra,
Rizka Vinkan Septiani,
Muhamad Muamar,
Ikhdin Radiamin Saadhi
Background: The novel coronavirus known as SARS-CoV-2 has spread worldwide and caused the COVID-19 pandemic. In September 2020, more than 32 million confirmed cases of COVID-19, with a death toll of more than 990,000. Among COVID-19 patients, those with cancer had worse outcomes than those without malignancy, but in some studies, the mortality rates differed significantly, ranging from 3.7% to 61.5%. Method: In this descriptive study, survival analysis with the Kaplan Meier curve was used to determine the healing rate of patients with cancer exposed to COVID-19 and undergoing treatment at dr. Moewardi General Hospital Surakarta-Indonesia from February to December 2020, and the Log Rank test was used to analyze data on two related groups. Results: The analysis using the Kaplan Meier method, female patients were found to have a higher survival rate than females, paged <50 years had a higher survival rate than those aged > 51 years, breast cancer had the lowest survival rate, and comorbidity of anemia had a higher survival rate than those with other comorbidities. The Log Rank test found a significant difference in the cumulative survival rates of cancer patients with COVID-19 with a p-value of 0.010 for comorbidity types. Meanwhile, from gender (p = 0.632), age (p = 0.672), type of cancer (p = 0.472), there was no significant difference. Conclusion: COVID-19 female patients aged less than 50 years with types of malignancy other than breast cancer and comorbidity of anemia have a higher survival rate.