New research from UVA Health finds severe COVID-19 and influenza can prime the lungs for cancer and speed the disease’s development, but vaccination can help prevent those effects. “A bad case of ...
Falling ill with covid, an extreme case of the flu or pneumonia makes you more vulnerable to developing lung cancer, according to researchers. The new findings, published in medical journal Cell, ...
University of Virginia School of Medicine researcher Jie Sun, PhD, and colleagues found that serious viral infections “reprogram” immune cells in the lungs to facilitate the growth of cancer tumors ...
Severe COVID-19 and influenza infections prime the lungs for cancer and can accelerate the disease's development, but vaccination heads off those harmful effects, new research from UVA Health's Beirne ...
Patients hospitalized with severe COVID-19 have an increased risk of developing lung cancer months or years later, according to new research from the University of Virginia. U.Va. School of Medicine ...
A severe case of COVID-19 or influenza could increase the risk of lung cancer later on, according to new research. Scientists discovered that serious viral infections can alter immune cells in the ...
New research linked severe bouts of COVID-19 or influenza to a 24 percent increased risk of lung cancer. Learn what steps could reduce your risk. New research has linked severe COVID-19 and flu with a ...
Severe covid and flu infections may raise the risk of developing lung cancer years later, researchers at the University of Virginia said. A study conducted in both mice and humans showed that subjects ...
Sun, a member of UVA’s Division of Infectious Diseases and International Health, and colleagues found that serious viral infections can “reprogram” immune cells in the lungs in ways that may allow ...