‘Unusual’ cancers emerged after the pandemic. Doctors ask if covid is to blame.
"Patel shared that he’d just seen a patient in his 40s with cholangiocarcinoma...a lethal cancer of the bile ducts that typically strikes people in their 70s and 80s. Initially, there was silence, and then one colleague after another said they’d recently treated patients who had similar diagnoses. Within a year of that meeting, the office had recorded seven such cases."
https://wapo.st/3Kvhb9d
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