And a University of Colorado team is studying whether covid reawakens dormant cancer cells in mice. Their provocative findings, according to a preprint report released in April, showed that when mice that were cancer survivors were infected with SARS-CoV-2, dormant cancer cells proliferated in the lungs. “Mitigating risk of infection may be of particular importance for cancer patients,” Weeraratna said. Other studies have implicated the coronavirus in helping to stimulate dormant breast cancer cells. “I would say most governments don’t want to think about long covid and much less long covid and cancer.

Source: Washington Post June 07, 2024 06:22 UTC