More light on cancer and COVID-19 reciprocal interaction

Ce dossier présente un ensemble d'articles concernant la prise en charge des cancers durant la crise sanitaire liée au COVID-19

British Journal of Cancer, sous presse, 2021, commentaire en libre accès

Résumé en anglais

Cancer patients are vulnerable to COVID-19 with consequences on treatment delays and on mortality rate. This Comment explores the interaction between COVID-19 and cancer with attention paid to the modulation by cancer treatments of both ADAM17 and TMPRSS2, the proteases which control ACE2 processing, the SARS-CoV-2 target.