“‘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…”