Researchers Looking Into Whether COVID-19 Pandemic Is Tied To Uptick In Aggressive Late-Stage Cancers

The Washington Post (6/6, Eunjung Cha) reports, “The uptick in aggressive, late-stage cancers since the dawn of the pandemic is confirmed by some early national data and a number of large cancer institutions.” Thus far, “many experts have mostly dismissed the trend as an expected consequence of disruptions to health care that began in 2020,” but not all. Although “it will probably be many years before the world has conclusive answers about whether the coronavirus is complicit in the surge of cancer cases,” some “concerned scientists are calling on the U.S. government to make this question a priority knowing it could affect treatment and management of millions of cancer patients for decades to come.”