Rare and 'unusual' cancers are emerging after the Covid pandemic - and doctors fear an unlikely culprit is to blame READ MORE: Global cancer phenomenon sees mystery spikes of kinds of tumors By Cassidy Morrison Senior Health Reportter Published: 11:54 EDT, 6 June 2024 | Updated: 12:39 EDT, 6 June 2024 e-mail 37 shares 159 View comments Doctors across the US are reporting an alarming health trend in the wake of the pandemic. Since about 2021, they are noticing rare and unusual cancers in patients who shouldn't fit the bill - many of them young and without any family history of disease. Cancers that typically affect seniors in their 70s, and 80s are now striking people in their 40s, including bile duct and rare blood cancers.
The pandemic forced people to isolate and put off preventative care measures that would screen for various types of cancers, out of fear of being infected. But doctors do not believe this to be the primary driver of advanced, rare cancer cases. Instead, they posit that Covid itself is to blame.
Bob and Bonnie Krall [shown left to right] were diagnosed with three types of cancer between them in a 14-month stretch despite having no genetic predispositions. Both had Covid previously. Photo courtesy of Mrs Krall's Facebook page The Kralls also learned that several of their neighbors had been diagnosed with the same rare cancers.
Photo courtesy of Mrs Krall's Facebook page Dr Kashyap Patel, a North Carolina oncologist, has seen this firsthand. He saw a patient .
