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1 in 8 cancer cases worldwide are caused by infections| CBC News (www.cbc.ca)
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[–] 9 points 18 hours ago (3 children)

Jesus this is scary

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helicobacter_pylori

over half of the global population is infected, but most individuals are asymptomatic.[

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  • [–] 4 points 18 hours ago* (2 children)

    Got this shit this year, I had huge symptoms. I'm on the second round of antibiotics trying to eliminate it. There are no guarantee that I won't get it again if I come to a cure period.

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    • [–] 19 points 1 day ago (4 children)

    Just wait till we find out what cancers Covid causes.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 day ago (2 children)

    I already have some references in Zotero for that.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 day ago (1 child)

    drop DOIs

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  • [–] 15 points 1 day ago

    Ebrahimi Sadrabadi, A., Bereimipour, A., Jalili, A. et al. The risk of pancreatic adenocarcinoma following SARS-CoV family infection. Sci Rep 11, 12948 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-92068-4

    Mitrofanova, L.; Makarov, I.; Goncharova, E.; Makarova, T.; Starshinova, A.; Kudlay, D.; Shlaykhto, E. High Risk of Heart Tumors after COVID-19. Life 2023, 13, 2087. https://doi.org/10.3390/life13102087

    Kasra Jahankhani, Fatemeh Ahangari, Ian M. Adcock, Esmaeil Mortaz, Possible cancer-causing capacity of COVID-19: Is SARS-CoV-2 an oncogenic agent?, Biochimie, Volume 213, 2023, Pages 130-138, ISSN 0300-9084, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biochi.2023.05.014.

    https://www.cell.com/cell/abstract/S0092-8674(26)00220-5

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  • [–] 2 points 1 day ago

    While it's possible such a thing will be discovered, the list of cancer-causing infectious agents in the article was very limited. A few bugs cause a large number of cancer cases each.

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    • [–] 16 points 1 day ago

    The open-access Lancet study in question.

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    [–] 4 points 1 day ago

    Honestly surprised it's that low.

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