Clinical characteristics and outcomes among critically ill patients with cancer and COVID-19-related acute respiratory failure.

"Declarations Ethics approval and consent to participateThis retrospective study was performed in accordance with the Declaration of Helsinki and approved by the Institutional Ethical Review Board of Taipei Veterans General Hospital (Approval No. 2022–11-002 AC). Written informed consent was waived by Institutional Ethical Review Board of Taipei Veterans General Hospital due to retrospective design of the study. Consent for publicationNot applicable. Competing interestsThe authors declare no competing interests. Competing interests The authors declare no competing interests."

"Funding This research was funded by grants from Taipei Veterans General Hospital (V111C-050, V111B-024, V112C-068, V112B-031, V112D65–003-MY2–1, V112A-001, V113B-015, V113A-003), and National Science and Technology Council, Taiwan (MOST109–2314-B-010-051-MY3, NSTC 112–2314-B-075-050, NSTC 112–2314-B-A49–040). Additionally, this work was supported by grants from the Ministry of Education, Higher Education SPROUT Project for Cancer Progression Research Center(111 W31101) and Cancer and Immunology Research Center (112 W31101)."