Cancer Patients' COVID risk explored in terminated study
NCT ID NCT04373005
First seen Jun 27, 2026 · Last updated Jun 27, 2026
Summary
This study aimed to understand how COVID-19 affects people with cancer, especially those receiving treatment. Researchers planned to measure how many cancer patients had COVID-19 without symptoms and how their immune systems responded. The study was terminated early, so results are limited.
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Study facts
What this study's own registry entry says, in plain language.
- Participants
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83 people
The number who actually took part.
- Started
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May 2020
- Finished
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Oct 2022
- Lead sponsor
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Other sponsor
The registry's catch-all category, for sponsors it does not file as a company, a government agency, or a research network.
Who can take part
This study's own entry requirements. Only the study team can say for certain whether you qualify.
Who is studied
Patients having an active malignancy who are planned to start therapy or receiving a treatment for active malignancy involved at the University Health Network and any other centres that choose to participate that are asymptomatic to COVID-19 for in-patients or ambulatory patients.
- Ages
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Children (under 18), adults (18 to 64) and older adults (65 and over)
- Sex
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Anyone
- Healthy volunteers
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Not accepted
This study is not open to healthy volunteers. The entry requirements below say who it is open to.
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Copied word for word from the study's registry entry, so the wording is the study team's rather than ours.
Inclusion Criteria: * Patients having an active malignancy who are planned to start therapy within 6 weeks of consent or are receiving a treatment for active malignancy. * The patient falls under either of the following categories: 1. Asymptomatic for COVID-19 (as per daily screening at the hospital entrance). 2. Has symptoms similar to those of COVID-19 (e.g. fever or flu-like symptoms such as cough or shortness of breath) that are assessed by the overseeing Investigator as being related to disease and unrelated to COVID-19 infection. Note: Patients who recovered from previous COVID-19 infection will be eligible. * No contraindication to performing a NP swab and blood work. Exclusion Criteria: * Any patients with fever, or flu-like symptoms assessed by the Investigator to be related or potentially related to COVID-19 infection will not be eligible. * Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group (ECOG) Performance Status of 3-4
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Conditions
The condition(s) this trial relates to.
As listed by the trial registrant
The condition terms exactly as the trial's registrant entered them.
Contacts and locations
Locations
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Princess Margaret Cancer Centre
Toronto, Ontario, M5G 1Z5, Canada
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