Cancer is not a risk factor for severe COVID-19 in children, except in patients with recent allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation or comorbidities

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Velasco Puyó, Pablo
García Obregón, Susana
Villate, Olatz
Moraleda, Cinta

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TheEPICO(SpanishgeneralregistryofCOVID-19inchildren)-SEHOP(SpanishSocietyofPediatricHematologyandOncology)platformgathersdatafromchildrenwith SARS-CoV-2inSpain,allowingcomparisonbetweenchildrenwithcancerorallogeneic hematopoieticstemcelltransplantation(alloHSCT)andthosewithout.Theinfection ismilderinthecancer/alloHSCTgroupthaninchildrenwithoutcomorbidities(7.1% vs.14.7%), except inchildrenwithrecentalloHSCT(lessthan300days),ofwhich 35.7%experiencedsevereCOVID-19.ThesedatahavebeensharedwiththeSEHOP memberstosupporttreatmentandisolationpoliciesakintothoseforchildrenwithoutcancer,exceptforthosewithrecentalloHSCToradditionalcomorbidities.This highlightsthecollaborativeregistriespotentialinmanagingpandemicemergencies.

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Velasco Puyó, P., Tagarro, A., Garcia‐Obregon, S., Villate, O., Moraleda, C., Huerta Aragonés, J., Bardón Cancho, E. J., Faura Morros, A., Galán‐Gómez, V., Escobar Fernández, L., Lendinez‐Molinos, F., Herrero Velasco, B., Ureña Horno, L., Domínguez‐Pinilla, N., Pascual Gazquez, J. F., Nova Lozano, C., Osuna‐Marco, M., Marín‐Cruz, I., Gomez Pastrana, I., … EPICO‐AEP Working Group. (2024). Cancer is not a risk factor for severe COVID‐19 in children, except in patients with recent allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation or comorbidities. Pediatric Blood & Cancer, 71(8). https://doi.org/10.1002/pbc.31120

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