Does Covid-19 raise risk for cancers—including rare ones?

HealthExec June 8, 2024
Dave Pearson

Data is the strongest form of evidence, anecdotes the weakest. What’s often lost in that equation is that, without anecdotes to formulate hypotheses, researchers might never gather and analyze data in the first place. And now a growing set of anecdotes has some academics suspecting a link between Covid and “unusual” cancers.

Others are skeptical. They point to the long-held scientific consensus that as many as a fifth of all cancers around the world trace to viruses. Covid is nothing special in triggering or accelerating cancers, the doubters maintain.

But enough medical detectives have been noticing an uptick in odd cancers since 2021 that they’re doing three things about it—sharing notes, launching studies, and calling for stepped-up research funding from...

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