New study links cancer patients and long Covid symptoms | Mint
“New study links cancer patients and long Covid symptoms.
More than one in two cancer patients experienced symptoms of long Covid-19 for more than six months after initial infection.”
Let's discuss why the idea that Sc2 causes cancer is not far-fetched, how waiting until we have definitive answers on this topic is a bad idea for us personally, and why (and what) Public Health worldwide needs to do better. (4/)
“Let's discuss why the idea that Sc2 causes cancer is not far-fetched, how waiting until we have definitive answers on this topic is a bad idea for us personally, and why (and what) Public Health worldwide needs to do better. (4/)”
‘Unusual’ cancers emerged after the pandemic. Doctors ask if covid is to blame.
“..:Patel and other concerned scientists are calling on the U.S. government to make this question [of whether Covid is causing rise in cancer] a priority knowing it could affect treatment and management of millions of cancer patients for decades to come.”
Via WaPo: “I’ve been in practice 23 years and have never seen anything like this,” oncologist Kashyap Patel said.
“‘I’ve been in practice 23 years and have never seen anything like this,’ oncologist Kashyap Patel said.
Asutosh Gor, another oncologist, agreed: ‘We were all shaken.’
There was other weirdness, too: multiple patients contending w multiple types of cancer arising almost simultaneously, and more than a dozen new cases of other rare cancers…. The uptick in aggressive, late-stage cancers since the…pandemic is confirmed by early national data and a number of large cancer institutions.
Many…dismissed the trend as a consequence of disruptions to health care that began in 2020.
But not everyone.
The idea that some viruses can cause or accelerate cancer is hardly new… 15 to 20 percent of all cancers worldwide originate from infectious agents…”
Disentangling the relationship between cancer mortality and COVID-19 in the US
Disturbing trends: Rampant COVID-19 increases deaths from the pre-pandemic baseline.
'Disentangling the relationship between cancer mortality and COVID-19 in the US'