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Related: About this forum'Unusual' cancers emerged after the pandemic. Doctors ask if covid is to blame. (really long)
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It was 2021, a year into the coronavirus pandemic, and as he slid into a chair, Patel shared that hed just seen a patient in his 40s with cholangiocarcinoma, a rare and lethal cancer of the bile ducts that typically strikes people in their 70s and 80s. Initially, there was silence, and then one colleague after another said theyd recently treated patients who had similar diagnoses. Within a year of that meeting, the office had recorded seven such cases. There was other weirdness, too: multiple patients contending with multiple types of cancer arising almost simultaneously, and more than a dozen new cases of other rare cancers.
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From his practice in this Southern town, Patel is conducting his own research into what he has taken to calling an unusual pattern of cancers. He is driven by watching patients especially younger ones die so quickly.
Hes looking at potential correlations between long-covid markers and unusual cancers. He has collected data from nearly 300 patients and wants to create a national registry to analyze trends. So far, his office has logged more than 15 patients with multiple cancers, more than 35 patients with rare cancers and more than 15 couples with new cancers since the pandemic began in 2020.
Patel theorizes the effects of coronavirus infections could be cumulative in people infected multiple times. Pandemic-related stress may compound the threat, he said, by exacerbating inflammation. If a link is established between the virus and cancer, he said, doctors might identify patients at greater risk and implement screenings earlier and even put some patients on anti-inflammatory drugs.
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AKwannabe
(6,053 posts)AF!!
StarryNite
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sheshe2
(85,867 posts)I suggest everyone read it all the way through.
Hekate
(93,384 posts)
that alerted doctors that something new was going on. Only later did they identify it as a virus.
So long COVID a deadly virus which has by now already been identified and rare cancers.
I dont like the sounds of this at all. Especially since my sister has recently had a very iffy shadow show up on her routine mammogram. No lump. And her doc wants to biopsy it yesterday. And a pre-melanoma on her ankle that her dermatologist also wants to thoroughly excise. Oh, did I mention she was an early COVID patient who spent 5 days in the hospital?
Well, thank you for this article and link. Downloading to read later.
question everything
(48,423 posts)I know of two cases, one was deep, next to the breast bone, the other right below the nipple. No outside checking would have found either.
mopinko
(71,350 posts)1 thing ill say- covid is expanding medical knowledge explosively.
doc dont look at me funny any more when i tell them i had wnv and was never the same.
ms liberty
(9,463 posts)Sounds scary, and sounds like I'm glad I've been able to avoid getting it so far, and very glad that I vaxx to the max.
58Sunliner
(4,932 posts)Scary. Multiple cancers.