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"Did catching Covid-19 help these patients fight cancer?"

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Unfortunately the source of this information is not very scientific (Daily Mail), but one described case seems to partially base on a credible source (see PDF link on the page below):

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi...

Don't try this at home! Wait for thousands of more reports showing miraculously cured people first (logic says we should see a lot of them, with COVID-19 pandemic so widespread) - and treat it it as some kind of "this one in a million lottery winner case".

Daily Mail article below:

dailymail.co.uk/health/arti...

Did catching Covid-19 help these patients fight cancer? One saw his tumours vanish, another went into remission. Now doctors are asking if their immune response was key - and if it could also be triggered by the vaccine

The patient, who was unnamed but was featured in a paper in the British Journal of Haematology, had not yet started chemotherapy for the disease, called Hodgkin lymphoma — a type of blood cancer that affects about 2,100 people a year in the UK.

So the sudden disappearance of the cancerous cells that had riddled his body was a complete mystery.

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81ue

The gentleman has some good antibodies, what an awesome ending to the scary catching of a terrible virus

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YelvertonDevon

Love your Disclaimer about the Daily Mail 😂

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bennevisplace

The Mail is not my choice of daily, but this article is quite good. As you say, don't take Covid as a treatment option.

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