“We were both healthy as can be,” said Bonnie Krall. “We had just finished a giant trip to the Western United States, we came back, and bam, Bob was diagnosed.”
Bob didn’t have COVID but instead two very rare forms of cancer. Then, Bonnie got similar news.
“I had an 8 1/2 pound tumor in my abdomen,” she told NewsNation’s “Elizabeth Vargas Reports.” “I was healthy in December, and by April, they diagnosed the cancer.”
The Kralls are among a growing number of people who had COVID and then developed rare kinds of cancer, often more than one kind.
“We started noticing some very unusual patterns,” said the Kralls’ physician, Dr. Kashyap Patel. He and his colleagues at Carolina Blood and Cancer Care Associates have documented some very concerning links between COVID and cancer: