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Scientists discover COVID mRNA vaccines boost cancer survival | ScienceDaily (www.sciencedaily.com)

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The vaccine appears to prime the immune system in a powerful, nonspecific way, enhancing cancer treatment outcomes. If confirmed, the discovery could lead to a universal cancer vaccine and transform oncology care.

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[–] zlatiah@lemmy.world 8 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Yuppp, this has been on the front page of Nature news for a few days. I was worried to share it because I was worried ppl would jump too quickly to conclusions, and all-things considered it appears that mRNA vaccine is a lot more... peculiar than what researchers would have imagined, in good and bad ways. We now have reports about the COVID vaccine doing things such as:

people can have pretty severe reactions to it
somehow it reduces cancer risk (as a form of immunotherapy?)
someone's breasts got enlarged to a dangerous degree after having the Pfizer vaccine (warning: this is a clinical report, contains NSFW images)

[–] Axolotl_cpp@feddit.it 5 points 2 months ago

The day after:

"Pzifer vaccine stock is empty"

[–] Cethin@lemmy.zip 3 points 2 months ago

For the breast one (the only one linked) causality couldn't be confirmed (obviously). It started one week after the vaccine, and that's all the evidence. Still something to watch, but one case isn't very strong support.