Millions of people are being infected with COVID-19 around the globe. Though the majority of them will recover, cancer patients remain at a higher risk to SARS-CoV-2 infection and its related severe outcomes. Understanding how viruses contribute to human cancers provides us with new opportunities for preventing or treating virus-associated cancers. However, a limited amount of research has been done to date in the context of how viral infections impact cancer at the cellular level and vice versa. Therefore, in light of the COVID-19 global infection, this review highlights the need for better understanding of the biology of viral infections in cancer patients, to enable novel therapies to co-target viral infections and cancer.

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COVID-19 对癌症风险和治疗的影响。

全球有数百万人感染了 COVID-19。尽管他们中的大多数人会康复，但癌症患者仍然面临更高的 SARS-CoV-2 感染及其相关严重后果的风险。了解病毒如何导致人类癌症为我们提供了预防或治疗病毒相关癌症的新机会。然而，迄今为止，在病毒感染如何在细胞水平上影响癌症以及反之亦然的背景下，已经进行了有限的研究。因此，鉴于 COVID-19 全球感染，本综述强调需要更好地了解癌症患者病毒感染的生物学特性，以使新疗法能够共同靶向病毒感染和癌症。