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Did COVID cause remission of an advanced cancer?

61 year old man was diagnosed with Hodgkin Lymphoma. He then developed COVID. Only got supportive care. No steroids or immunotherapy. 4 months later, cancer had mostly resolved (left image vs right) 🪢

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11…
There are 3 possible explanations:

1) Hodgkin Lymphoma is unique among cancers in that what you see as big lumps of tumor are not cancer cells: Bulk of tumor mass is just normal reactive lymphocytes with small amounts of cancer (Reed Sternberg) cells mixed in. (Owl like cells)
So after COVID the reactive cells may disappear due to the severe viral infection, making it look like the cancer has gone into remission. But maybe only the normal reactive cells have disappeared. Time will tell if the true Hodgkin cancer cells are still there and will come back
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