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Cancer patients—especially those with blood and lung cancers or malignancies that have spread throughout the body—have three times the risk of death or severe complications from COVID-19 compared to people who don’t have cancer, a large, multihospital study in China finds. Also, many cancer treatments suppress the immune system, which makes contracting infections, including COVID-19, more likely. These treatments include chemotherapy, radiation, and CART cell therapy, which suppress the body’s immune system.