Debunking the Vaccine-Cancer Link: The Truth Behind Princess Catherine’s Diagnosis and Vaccine Misinformation

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The Princess of Wales’s announcement about the cancer she suffers from, on March 22, 2024, was followed by messages shared thousands of times on social networks linking the disease to vaccines against Covid-19, but this is not correct. Specialists warn of an increase in cancer diagnoses in adults under 50 years of age since the early 1990s. In addition, experts contacted by AFP stressed that there is no proven link between pandemic vaccines and an increase in tumors such as suffered by Catherine of Cambridge, 42 years old.

“The Princess of Wales, Kate Middleton, has been diagnosed with cancer; “There is a high probability that she has Turbo Cancer, caused by the COVID-19 mRNA vaccines she took in 2021,” resume is user on Facebook, which directly links the immunizer to the princess’s current illness.

Other posts on Facebook (1, 2, 3) y X They share similar statements and link screenshots of the news about the announcement of the disease and the day Prince William’s wife was vaccinated.

Publications linking cancer to the vaccine also circulated on French, chino, Croatian y German.

Screenshot of a Facebook post, made on March 27, 2024

The Princess of Wales, Catherine, who had been out of the media spotlight for two months after an abdominal operation, revealed the March 22, 2024 in a recorded video message that she suffers from cancer, for which she is already being treated with preventive chemotherapy.

The day after the princess’s announcement, the British newspaper The Telegraph published the headline “As the Princess of Wales reveals her diagnosis, doctors warn of a mysterious cancer ‘epidemic’”something that users echoed like this, that highlights the words “Mysterious epidemic.”

Even the former British MP candidate for the Brexit party Jim Ferguson linked in X the article with a message with the tags “#mRNA” y “#vaccinesideeffects”. He article from The Telegraphhowever, does not mention vaccines.

Screenshot of a post on X, made on March 26, 2024

mRNA or messenger RNA vaccines appear, as AFP Factual has been counting since 2021, among the immunizers against covid-19 and use genetic engineering to provoke an immune response in the body, unlike traditional vaccines, which contain attenuated viruses or inactive.

With messenger RNA vaccines, a fragment of mRNA with instructions to produce a protein from SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes Covid-19, is injected into the body, triggering an immune response that the body memorizes.

These types of injections are among those that caused the greatest amount of misinformation on social networks as a result of their application.

There is no proven link between the vaccine and cancer

As of the date of publication of this article, there is no scientific evidence that directly links the covid vaccine and cancer. “Talking about an epidemic or inexplicable reasons as the headline of the Telegraph article does is unfounded. Furthermore, the text of the news gives explanations/clues that deviate from the headline, which is intended to attract attention”highlighted the communication service of the National Cancer Institute in France, in a statement to AFP on March 26, 2024.

Already in January 2022the French Cancer League denied the link between messenger RNA vaccines and cancer: “The vaccine is injected, but it has a very short duration in the body, this RNA cannot under any circumstances enter the nucleus of the cell and interfere with the genome and cause mutations”.

In addition, doctors do not usually use the expression “turbo cancer” or “turbo cancer” that some users use, as explained by AFP Factual in this verification from March 2024, in which the relationship between anticovid immunizers and tumors was already ruled out.

The medical oncology specialist Maya Gutierrez, at the Curie Institute, also rejected the hypothesis, because the time “it is too short, it is impossible that a vaccination could cause phenomena like this”.

In March 2024, experts from the International Cancer Research Centerwhich depends on the World Health Organization, stated: “There is no proof that any vaccine causes cancer.” In fact, vaccines against covid were recommended and applied in cancer patients, experts from the center recalled, “because they have a higher risk of developing complications when infected with the virus”.

The increase in cancer cases in young people predates the pandemic

The oncologist Kimmie Ngof the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, explained to AFP on March 23 that the case of Princess Catherine, 42, “It is a disturbing example of the increasing rate of cancer in adults under 50 years of age”.

And report of the American Cancer Society published in January 2024 highlights that young adults “They are the only age group in which an increase in the incidence of cancer is observed between 1995 and 2020”before the pandemic and therefore vaccines.

The trend was also recorded in other studies, such as this northern irish 2022 or this otherpublished by the British Medical Journal in 2023. In all cases, the data collected is from pre-pandemic periods.

Alcohol, obesity, sedentary lifestyle: several factors under examination

The reason for the increase in cancer cases in those under 50 years of age remains unknown, the oncologist highlighted on March 25, 2024. Shivan Sivakumarresearcher at the University of Birmingham: “There are theories about diet, the microbiota, there may be an environmental explanation too…”

Articles such as the one from the aforementioned British media or It is of the Spanish El País list among the causes a genetic predisposition.

Other investigations They point to lifestyle, specifically alcohol and tobacco consumption, as being responsible for cancers such as colorectal or intestinal cancer in young adults.

Improvement in diagnosis also explains the rise, because many cancers would not have been detected in people under 50 years of age before the 2010s.

And study published in August 2023 in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA, for its acronym in English) reminds that cancer “Traditionally it was considered a disease of the elderly (defined as adults 50 years of age and older)”.

The same study lists the following causes to explain the increase in cases in young people: “The rise in the incidence of obesity, changes in environmental exposures, such as pollution and oil; sleep problems, lack of physical activity and exposure to carcinogenic components.”

A different increase depending on the type of cancer and sex

Another reason that separates the increase in cancer cases from the covid vaccine is that the disease does not affect men and women equally. For example, him breast cancermore common in women.

The 2023 British study cited above shows that mortality among women who suffer from cancer at a younger age is higher in low-income countries.

The same scientific text, however, relativizes the rise in these cases of cancer at an early age, since in the United Kingdom, for example, they account for a tenth of the total.

The French National Cancer Institute highlighted, for its part, that certain types of cancer are trending downwards: “For example, cancers of the lip, mouth and pharynx among men between 40 and 50 years old.”

Overall mortality down

Cancer mortality, globally, tends to decrease, as shown This studio from the British Society for Cancer Research, published in January 2024 in the British Medical Journal. While in 1993, 40% of deaths linked to cancer in men occurred in the age group of 35 to 39 years, in 2018 the rate dropped to 30%.

In countries like Spain, mortality from cancer has experienced a sharp decline in the last decades. “The survival of cancer patients in Spain is similar” to that of surrounding countries, according to the report of the Spanish Society of Medical Oncology for 2023, which estimates that survival “It has doubled in the last 40 years and is likely to continue to increase, albeit slowly, in the coming years”. To the same conclusions arrive the French Cancer Research Foundation.

The authors of the Jama study already mentioned they insist on the “prevention” and the “detection” to confront cancer cases between 40 and 49 years of age, something on which experts agree, as well as change habits of life to minimize the risk of suffering from the disease.

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