
People who have been ill with CORONAVIRUS can develop cancer in the lungs and gastrointestinal tract. This was announced by Deputy Chairman of the State Duma Committee on HEALTH Protection, Candidate of Medical Sciences Tatyana Solomatina, reports Ura.ru.
“In people who had covid-19 with damage to the lung tissue, inflammatory diseases associated with oncology of the lung tissue and the gastrointestinal tract began to be detected quite often after a certain period of time,” Solomatina said.
According to her, inflammation due to coronavirus can be the initial stage for the development of cancer. “COVID has become the starting point for the emergence of certain diseases. Where a person has problems, but they were not visible. And coronavirus infection is an inflammatory process, and oncology is an inflammatory process, that is, the source of oncology, the trigger mechanism, is inflammation caused by COVID-19, ”concluded Solomatina.
Oncologist predicted an increase in the incidence of cancer due to the covid epidemic Society
In May last year, Ilya Chernikovsky, HEAD of the oncocoloproctology department at Moscow City Hospital No. 62, said that due to the coronavirus epidemic, the number of severe oncological patients could increase by autumn. He explained that this could happen, since all examinations were suspended, which means that the detection of oncology at an early stage also decreased. “Therefore, in the fall, when many more will return from their dachas, we expect an explosion in cancer incidence, especially with advanced stages,” the DOCTOR said at the time.