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The link between COVID-19 infections and cancer regression
During the pandemic, some doctors noticed that when some of their cancer patients got sick with COVID-19, their tumors stopped growing or even shrank. This finding could lead to new ways to treat cancer.
Here & Now's Scott Tong talks to Dr. Ankit Bharat, a thoracic surgeon at Northwestern University, who recently published a study on how COVID-19 infections can affect cancer.
This segment aired on December 25, 2024.