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Feb 8, 2021,12:49pm EST
Did Covid-19 Cure This Person?s Cancer?
Victoria Forster Contributor Healthcare
Cancer research scientist and childhood cancer survivor.
For one person in the U.K., a bout of Covid-19 may have come with unexpected positives by sending his aggressive cancer into remission. A report published in the British Journal of Haematology documents how a 61 year old patient with Hodgkin lymphoma had his cancer go into remission after an infection with the SARS-CoV2 coronavirus.
Shortly after the man was diagnosed with stage III lymphoma involving multiple tumors all over his body, he contracted Covid-19 and was admitted to hospital for 11 days. During that time his condition improved and he was eventually sent home to continue his recovery from Covid-19.
Four months later, scans and tests revealed that the patient?s multiple tumors had mostly disappeared. During his time in hospital with Covid-19, he received no treatments such as steroids or other therapies that could theoretically explain his remission. He also received no treatments for the lymphoma, likely due to the severe burden of cancer at diagnosis and his general poor health involving kidney failure following a failed transplant several years previously...
Feb 8, 2021,12:49pm EST
Did Covid-19 Cure This Person?s Cancer?
Victoria Forster Contributor Healthcare
Cancer research scientist and childhood cancer survivor.
For one person in the U.K., a bout of Covid-19 may have come with unexpected positives by sending his aggressive cancer into remission. A report published in the British Journal of Haematology documents how a 61 year old patient with Hodgkin lymphoma had his cancer go into remission after an infection with the SARS-CoV2 coronavirus.
Shortly after the man was diagnosed with stage III lymphoma involving multiple tumors all over his body, he contracted Covid-19 and was admitted to hospital for 11 days. During that time his condition improved and he was eventually sent home to continue his recovery from Covid-19.
Four months later, scans and tests revealed that the patient?s multiple tumors had mostly disappeared. During his time in hospital with Covid-19, he received no treatments such as steroids or other therapies that could theoretically explain his remission. He also received no treatments for the lymphoma, likely due to the severe burden of cancer at diagnosis and his general poor health involving kidney failure following a failed transplant several years previously...
