{"id":11627,"date":"2026-03-11T18:08:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-11T23:08:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/?p=11627"},"modified":"2026-03-11T18:08:11","modified_gmt":"2026-03-11T23:08:11","slug":"severe-covid-19-and-flu-can-facilitate-lung-cancer-months-or-years-later","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/2026\/03\/11\/severe-covid-19-and-flu-can-facilitate-lung-cancer-months-or-years-later\/","title":{"rendered":"Severe COVID-19 and flu can facilitate lung cancer months or years later"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"panel body-content\"><div class=\"panel__container\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/news\/2026-03-severe-covid-flu-lung-cancer.html\">Medical Express<\/a> Severe COVID-19 and influenza infections prime the lungs for cancer and can accelerate the disease&#8217;s development, but vaccination heads off those harmful effects, new research from UVA Health&#8217;s Beirne B. Carter Center for Immunology Research and UVA Comprehensive Cancer Center indicates. UVA School of Medicine researcher Jie Sun, Ph.D., and colleagues found that serious viral infections &#8220;reprogrammed&#8221; immune cells in the lungs to facilitate the growth of cancer tumors months or even years later.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Based on their findings,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cell.com\/cell\/fulltext\/S0092-8674(26)00220-5\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"published, opens in a new window\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">published<\/a>\u00a0in the journal\u00a0<em>Cell<\/em>, the scientists are urging doctors to closely monitor patients who have recovered from severe COVID, flu or pneumonia in hopes of catching lung cancer early, when it is most treatable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/news\/2026-03-severe-covid-flu-lung-cancer.html\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n<a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"\/secure-location.php\" style=\"display: none;\" title=\"vIcNbUyUZ CX aPdRKQUGcNlJG \">vIcNbUyUZ CX aPdRKQUGcNlJG <\/a><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Medical Express Severe COVID-19 and influenza infections prime the lungs for cancer and can accelerate the disease&#8217;s development, but vaccination heads off those harmful effects, new research from UVA Health&#8217;s Beirne B. Carter Center for Immunology Research and UVA Comprehensive Cancer Center indicates. UVA School of Medicine researcher Jie Sun, Ph.D., and colleagues found that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11627","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-covid"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11627","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11627"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11627\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11628,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11627\/revisions\/11628"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11627"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11627"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11627"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}