Russia (bbabo.net) - People who had lung tissue damage during the coronavirus infection may face cancer in the future. This applies not only to the lungs, but also to the intestines or other organs, depending on where the person had a "weak point".

Tatiana Solomatina, Deputy Chairman of the State Duma Committee on Health Protection, Candidate of Medical Sciences, spoke about such a probability. According to her, COVID-19 has become a "starting point" for the launch of diseases of various etiologies against the background of inflammatory processes in the body.

"There are already certain developments that people who have undergone COVID with damage to the lung tissue, quite often, after a certain period of time, inflammatory diseases associated with oncology of the lung tissue and the gastrointestinal tract began to be detected," she told Ura.ru. - Kovidnaya an infection is an inflammatory process, and oncology is an inflammatory process, that is, the source of oncology, the triggering mechanism, is inflammation caused by covid. "

At the moment, it is known that patients who already have oncological diseases can become infected with coronavirus in a more severe form. According to the head of Rospotrebnadzor Anna Popova, this is also true for the omicron strain. As protection against most complications, severe COVID-19 and death, doctors recommend in the absence of contraindications to be vaccinated against coronavirus, and in the presence of any health problems, consult a doctor.

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