Case Report: A Nasopharyngeal Cancer Patient Got COVID-19 During Radiochemotherapy in Wuhan

Weiming Qiu; Fengtao Yi; Xingfeng Ren; Zhaoxia Li; Deqiang Wang; Ning Wang

doi:10.3389/fonc.2020.01755

Case Report: A Nasopharyngeal Cancer Patient Got COVID-19 During Radiochemotherapy in Wuhan

Front Oncol. 2020 Oct 27:10:1755. doi: 10.3389/fonc.2020.01755. eCollection 2020.

Authors

Weiming Qiu^{1

2}, Fengtao Yi^{2

3}, Xingfeng Ren^{2

4}, Zhaoxia Li⁵, Deqiang Wang⁶, Ning Wang⁵

Affiliations

¹ Department of Burn and Plastic Surgery, General Hospital of Central Theater Command of Chinese People's Liberation Army, Wuhan, China.
² Department of Infectious Diseases, General Hospital of Central Theater Command of Chinese People's Liberation Army, Wuhan, China.
³ Department of Radiotherapy, General Hospital of Central Theater Command of Chinese People's Liberation Army, Wuhan, China.
⁴ Department of Urology, General Hospital of Central Theater Command of Chinese People's Liberation Army, Wuhan, China.
⁵ Rocket Force Characteristic Medical Center of Chinese People's Liberation Army, Beijing, China.
⁶ Department of Medical Oncology, Affiliated Hospital of Jiangsu University, Zhenjiang, China.

Abstract

The coronavirus disease (COVID-19) infection, caused by the novel severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), has spread worldwide. Reports of COVID-19 among cancer patients are limited and most studies focus mainly on its epidemiological and clinical features. In this study, we report the case of a nasopharyngeal cancer patient from Wuhan who contracted COVID-19 during radiochemotherapy and has since recovered from the infection. We hope that this report will provide valuable insight into the treatment of SARS-CoV-2-infected cancer patients through an account of our experience.

Keywords: COVID-19; SARS-CoV-2; lymphocyte; nasopharyngeal cancer; radiochemotherapy; recovery.

Publication types

Case Reports