“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.”
“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.”
“‘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…”
Disturbing trends: Rampant COVID-19 increases deaths from the pre-pandemic baseline.
'Disentangling the relationship between cancer mortality and COVID-19 in the US'
Scientists are concerned that SARSCoV2 virus targets / interacts with 96 cancer genes— thereby “potential impact on pathways relevant to cancer affecting cell proliferation… favoring DNA degradation, preventing repair of damaging events”.
The network of SARS-CoV-2—cancer molecular interactions and pathways: