I don't know if it is accurate, but I heard - a good long while ago - that cancer cells lie dormant in the body, until something triggers them...like carcinogens.
I would guess that something like, oh, say a novel virus invading blood cells, just might activate cancer cells. But, I'm no oncologist, or even an Infectious Diseases expert like #FabioCodswallop (sorry, can't remember his real name anymore).

That's exactly what's happening with covid -- it enables cancer (rather than causing it directly) by damaging mechanisms in the body that inhibit dormant cancer cells from proliferating, or that prevent other things from causing it. From the abstract of the Cell Communication and Signaling paper:

"Unlike classical oncogenic viruses, which transform cells through viral oncogenes or by activating host oncogenes, SARS-CoV-2 appears to promote tumorigenesis by inhibiting tumor suppressor genes and pathways while activating survival, proliferation, and inflammation-associated signaling cascades."

'Cancer-enabling' doesn't have the same ring to it though 😓 so I don't think it's *that* much of a semantic crime to say that covid causes cancer. Throwing open the door for every other carcinogen might as well be causing it

That was on my mind when I heard about the diabetes, and Parkinson's, and liver & kidney damage. Also, skin rashes, petechiae, etc. Why not cancer, too? Why wouldn't specialists be hunting for all kinds of sequelae? Are they tired of raking in the big bikkies?