{"id":9993,"date":"2025-07-30T14:39:39","date_gmt":"2025-07-30T19:39:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/?p=9993"},"modified":"2025-07-30T14:39:41","modified_gmt":"2025-07-30T19:39:41","slug":"covid-infection-early-in-pandemic-linked-to-higher-risk-of-cancer-death-cu-study-finds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/2025\/07\/30\/covid-infection-early-in-pandemic-linked-to-higher-risk-of-cancer-death-cu-study-finds\/","title":{"rendered":"COVID infection early in pandemic linked to higher risk of cancer death, CU study finds"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"panel body-content\"><div class=\"panel__container\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.denverpost.com\/2025\/07\/30\/covid-infection-cancer-death\/\">Denver Post<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Cancer survivors infected with&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.denverpost.com\/tag\/coronavirus\/\">COVID-19<\/a>&nbsp;in the early months of the pandemic had a higher risk of dying from dormant cells reawakening, Colorado researchers found, though they don\u2019t know whether people who get the virus now face the same risk.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Experiments in mice found that genetically modified animals were more likely to have signs of metastatic&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.denverpost.com\/tag\/cancer\/\">cancer<\/a>&nbsp;in their lungs if infected with flu or COVID-19 than engineered mice that researchers didn\u2019t give a virus, said James DeGregori, deputy director of the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/medschool.cuanschutz.edu\/colorado-cancer-center\">University of Colorado Cancer Center<\/a>&nbsp;in Aurora.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>That finding launched an international partnership to determine whether the same thing happened in people, he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>DeGregori was one of the lead investigators, alongside scientists from Utrecht University in the Netherlands, Imperial College London, University College London, University of Connecticut, Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York City, Children\u2019s Hospital of Philadelphia, and the COVID-19 International Research Team, based in Massachusetts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Two datasets, from the United States and the United Kingdom, both showed a higher risk that cancer survivors with confirmed COVID-19 infections would die from metastatic cancer, compared to survivors who didn\u2019t test positive for the virus.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Denver Post Cancer survivors infected with&nbsp;COVID-19&nbsp;in the early months of the pandemic had a higher risk of dying from dormant cells reawakening, Colorado researchers found, though they don\u2019t know whether people who get the virus now face the same risk. Experiments in mice found that genetically modified animals were more likely to have signs of [&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-9993","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\/9993","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=9993"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9993\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9994,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9993\/revisions\/9994"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9993"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9993"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9993"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}