Background The presence of comorbidity poses a major clinical challenge in the care and treatment of COVID-19 patients. Moreover, having one or more comorbidities could be a life-threatening situation in COVID-19 patients. Cancer is substantially associated with significant morbidity and mortality in COVID-19 patients. However, there is not sufficient data to conclude that cancer patients have a higher risk of COVID-19 infection. In this study, we reviewed cancer comorbidity and risk of mechanical ventilation or death in patients with confirmed COVID-19. Methods A comprehensive systematic search was performed on PubMed, Scopus, Web of Science, SciELO, and CNKI, to find articles published until August 01, 2020. All relevant case series, case reports, systematic and narrative reviews, meta-analyses, and prospective and retrospective studies that reported clinical characteristics and epidemiological information of cancer patients infected with COVID-19 were included in the study. Results A total of 12 cohort studies exclusively on cancer patients with confirmed COVID-19 were selected. Conclusions According to the findings of this study, cancer was not among the most prevalent underlying diseases in patients with confirmed COVID-19. Moreover, cancer patients infected with COVID-19 had the lowest risk of mechanical ventilation or death than the non-cancer infected patients.

Background: To date, several studies have been carried out on the association of TNF-α-308G>A with the risk of cervical cancer (CC) and breast cancer (BC). However, their conclusions were not consistent. Thus, we performed a comprehensive meta-analysis to evaluate the association more precisely from all eligible case-control studies. Methods: We searched the PubMed, Google Scholar and Cochrane Library databases systematically to identify relevant studies up to 1 February 2019. The pooled odds ratio (OR) with 95% confidence interval (CI) was calculated using a fixed-or random-effects model. Results: A total of 40 case-control studies including 20 studies with 4,780 cases and 4,620 controls on CC and 20 studies with 12,390 cases and 14,910 controls on BC were selected in this meta-analysis. The pooled results showed that the TNF-α-308G>A polymorphism was significantly associated with an increased risk of CC (A vs.

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