COVID-19 vaccines may cause cancer in some people, doctors said June 3.
Dr. Angus Dalgleish, professor emeritus of oncology at the University of London, told a hearing in Washington that he witnessed patients unexpectedly develop cancer after receiving COVID-19 vaccines built with messenger ribonucleic acid (mRNA) technology.
“I have no doubt in my mind that the mRNA vaccine likely played a significant role in the development of these unexpected cancers,” he said.
Dr. Wafik El-Deiry, director of Brown University’s Legorreta Cancer Center, said during the hearing that he has found the spike protein, found in both COVID-19 and COVID-19 vaccination, could reduce the ability to activate genes involved in suppressing cancer. El-Deiry and a colleague in a January paper listed dozens of publications describing different types of cancer appearing shortly after COVID-19 vaccination or infection, several months after they told a federal vaccine committee that safety issues with the vaccines could include cancer, with cancer mechanisms being one of the areas that needed further exploration. …