This is shown by a study where 19,000 adult survivors of childhood cancer in Sweden and Denmark have been followed.
"It is important to understand that even if these individuals did not become infected more often, the consequences were more severe when they did become ill", says Javier Louro at the Institute of Environmental Medicine at the Karolinska Institute in a press release.
Survivors of childhood cancer ran a 58 percent higher risk of being affected by a severe covid-19 that required hospital care, intensive care or led to death.
The researchers believe that survivors of childhood cancer should be considered a risk group in future pandemics or other health crises.
