{"id":3344,"date":"2023-11-23T07:04:00","date_gmt":"2023-11-23T12:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/?p=3344"},"modified":"2023-11-26T01:19:25","modified_gmt":"2023-11-26T06:19:25","slug":"inside-long-covids-war-on-the-body-researchers-are-trying-to-find-out-whether-the-virus-has-the-potential-to-cause-cancer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/news\/inside-long-covids-war-on-the-body-researchers-are-trying-to-find-out-whether-the-virus-has-the-potential-to-cause-cancer\/","title":{"rendered":"Inside long COVID\u2019s war on the body: Researchers are trying to find out whether the virus has the potential to cause cancer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Long COVID is no stranger to either patients or those immersed in studies of its effects. In the U.S., one in 7&nbsp;adults\u2013about 14% of the adult population\u2013has experienced symptoms that lasted three months or longer after first contracting the virus. The worldwide estimate for long COVID is 65&nbsp;million people.<\/p>\n<p>What is less clear\u2013because it\u2019s still so early in the process\u2013is the impact of some of SARS-CoV-2\u2019s most dangerous characteristics on those hit by long COVID. But some researchers are warily watching for the worst: a potential connection to cancer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Long COVID is no stranger to either patients or those immersed in studies of its effects. In the U.S., one in 7&nbsp;adults\u2013about 14% of the adult population\u2013has experienced symptoms that lasted three months or longer after first contracting the virus. The worldwide estimate for long COVID is 65&nbsp;million people.<\/p>\n<p>What is less clear\u2013because it\u2019s still so early in the process\u2013is the impact of some of SARS-CoV-2\u2019s most dangerous characteristics on those hit by long COVID. But some researchers are warily watching for the worst: a potential connection to cancer.<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/news\/inside-long-covids-war-on-the-body-researchers-are-trying-to-find-out-whether-the-virus-has-the-potential-to-cause-cancer\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Inside long COVID\u2019s war on the body: Researchers are trying to find out whether the virus has the potential to cause cancer<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3346,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[193,18,11,638,8,14],"class_list":["post-3344","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-cancer","tag-covid-19","tag-long-covid","tag-oncogenic-viruses","tag-research","tag-sars-cov-2","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3344","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3344"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3344\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3345,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3344\/revisions\/3345"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3346"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3344"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3344"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3344"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}