Health Freedom Defense Fund (HFDF) is issuing an urgent notice regarding a recent article in the journal Nature. Last week, a startling admission was made in the high-impact journal Nature, as researchers, media outlets, and medical journals rushed to declare that taking an mRNA injection within 100 days before immune checkpoint inhibitor (ICI) cancer treatment was not only not harmful, but was allegedly helpful in the extension of survival time for patients.
Critically, the evidence that mRNA injections cause better cancer outcomes simply cannot be obtained by the research format the authors used. The authors based their positive claim on an observational (not experimental) and retrospective (backward-looking, already collected) medical records analysis and some associated research on immune response in mice and human tissue samples. Such studies can be used to form theories or hypotheses, but never to prove them.
When it comes to this particular cancer treatment in question, less than half of patients respond positively to it, according to recent estimates. While more and more people are taking ICI each year, the total undergoing treatment is only between 15,000 and 20,000[1]. This only represents a small fraction of just 1% of people with cancer in the U.S. So, the claimed benefit is only possible for very few, if it were even true.
Stunning Admission of Immune System Changes for Those with Cancer
While describing their research, the study authors admit that the shots quickly and measurably change the recipient's immune system, revving it up for battle (both offense cells against the tumor and defenses against that immune response) which can lead to unpredictable results for people with all types of cancer. Considering this, what happens next for the millions of people who have known or unknown cancerous tumors in their bodies, who have just had their immune systems changed and are not on treatment? Have mRNA injections created a window of time that allows for worsening of existing cancers?
The researchers of the Nature paper had the opportunity to investigate records of patients they had in their system, who did not get ICI treatment but did receive the mRNA spike vaccine. If they showed evidence of bad outcomes, it would prove that this "immune priming" as the authors call it, could potentially be especially harmful to the 18.1 million people estimated to be living with cancer in the US today. At the very least, it is unknown and it was irresponsible not to look at this possibility.
Even if their positive claims about immune priming helping treatment were somehow true—which we doubt—this situation does not support the idea of mandating or pressuring people to take any vaccine or medicine as a one-size-fits-all approach.
HFDF firmly argues that this situation is further evidence showing the dangerous, reckless nature of any medical mandates or coerced treatment for any individual, which becomes even more dangerous at the level of a whole population. HFDF calls for urgent investigation of the potential dangers of mRNA vaccination for cancer patients.
[1] https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamanetworkopen/fullarticle/2732329
