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WaPo: Studies show Covid-19 vaccines doubled the median survival length of Cancer patients

Posted on 10/25/25 at 4:25 pm
Posted by Aced
Member since Jul 2013
1672 posts
Posted on 10/25/25 at 4:25 pm
Study finds mRNA coronavirus vaccines prolonged life of cancer patients

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Health records of more than 1,000 cancer patients receiving immunotherapy for lung and skin cancer showed they gained additional benefit after vaccination. Covid-19 vaccines, credited with saving millions of lives during the pandemic, set off a powerful alarm that rallies the human immune system against cancer and nearly doubles the median survival length of patients, according to a new retrospective study by researchers at the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center and the University of Florida.
Posted by geauxjuice
t(-.-t)
Member since Jan 2007
4321 posts
Posted on 10/25/25 at 4:26 pm to
vaccine prolly what gave em cancer in the first place!!!!! sheep!!!!!
Posted by tigersownall
Thibodaux
Member since Sep 2011
16600 posts
Posted on 10/25/25 at 4:35 pm to
Not the case for my mom sadly.
Posted by BigCheese2001x
Member since Aug 2012
344 posts
Posted on 10/25/25 at 4:43 pm to
Mine either. Two weeks after the shot she suddenly has a heart attack....
Posted by Gus007
TN
Member since Jul 2018
13949 posts
Posted on 10/25/25 at 4:44 pm to
Was that a Pfizer study headed by Fauci?
Posted by Fenster
Member since Mar 2008
883 posts
Posted on 10/25/25 at 5:01 pm to
How would they conclude that with max 4.5 years worth of data?
Posted by ned nederlander
Member since Dec 2012
5398 posts
Posted on 10/25/25 at 5:15 pm to
quote:

How would they conclude that with max 4.5 years worth of data?


I assume a good number of people with advanced stage cancer took the shot, and a good number of people with advanced stage cancer did not.
Posted by ATrillionaire
Houston
Member since Sep 2008
2132 posts
Posted on 10/25/25 at 5:22 pm to
These comments prove nobody reads anymore.
Posted by DB_tiger
BTR
Member since May 2025
225 posts
Posted on 10/25/25 at 5:25 pm to
Strannix on suicide watch
Posted by BHS78
Member since May 2017
3349 posts
Posted on 10/25/25 at 5:58 pm to
Sure it does, better go get 6 boosters
Posted by Obtuse1
Westside Bodymore Yo
Member since Sep 2016
29876 posts
Posted on 10/25/25 at 6:04 pm to
Copy of study from Nature if anyone wants to read it:

Web Archive

ETA the abstract:

quote:

Immune checkpoint inhibitors (ICIs) extend survival in many patients with cancer but are ineffective in patients without pre-existing immunity1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9. Although personalized mRNA cancer vaccines sensitize tumours to ICIs by directing immune attacks against preselected antigens, personalized vaccines are limited by complex and time-intensive manufacturing processes10,11,12,13,14. Here we show that mRNA vaccines targeting SARS-CoV-2 also sensitize tumours to ICIs. In preclinical models, SARS-CoV-2 mRNA vaccines led to a substantial increase in type I interferon, enabling innate immune cells to prime CD8+ T cells that target tumour-associated antigens. Concomitant ICI treatment is required for maximal efficacy in immunologically cold tumours, which respond by increasing PD-L1 expression. Similar correlates of vaccination response are found in humans, including increases in type I interferon, myeloid–lymphoid activation in healthy volunteers and PD-L1 expression on tumours. Moreover, receipt of SARS-CoV-2 mRNA vaccines within 100 days of initiating ICI is associated with significantly improved median and three-year overall survival in multiple large retrospective cohorts. This benefit is similar among patients with immunologically cold tumours. Together, these results demonstrate that clinically available mRNA vaccines targeting non-tumour-related antigens are potent immune modulators capable of sensitizing tumours to ICIs.
This post was edited on 10/25/25 at 6:06 pm
Posted by deltadummy
Member since Mar 2025
1306 posts
Posted on 10/25/25 at 6:36 pm to
If there's one org you can't trust, it's MDACC in Houston. They are known for shoddy work, pseudo science and questionable results.
Posted by andwesway
Zachary, LA
Member since Jun 2016
2664 posts
Posted on 10/25/25 at 6:53 pm to
If this even a smidgen true, it could be a game changer.
Posted by tigerinthebueche
Member since Oct 2010
37644 posts
Posted on 10/25/25 at 7:11 pm to
quote:

How would they conclude that with max 4.5 years worth of data?


Same way the concluded these vaccines were completely, totally, unquestionably safe without years of data. Now shut up and take one or you’ll lose your job.
Posted by Cosmo
glassman's guest house
Member since Oct 2003
128526 posts
Posted on 10/25/25 at 7:14 pm to
quote:

there's one org you can't trust, it's MDACC in Houston. They are known for shoddy work, pseudo science and questionable results.


I know, I only trust the tweets strannix posts
Posted by dallastigers
Member since Dec 2003
9294 posts
Posted on 10/25/25 at 7:15 pm to
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How would they conclude that with max 4.5 years worth of data?


It’s a post hoc analysis of 1139 cancer patients from I think years 2019 to 2022.

For the small cell lung cancer version they compared 704 cancer patients without vaccine in the first 100 days or not at all (assuming pre-covid so no vaccine administered out of reach of the data collected/used or not accidentally left off the records used) to only 180 patients taking vaccine within the 100 days for one cancer.

The melanoma study consisted 167 patients without vaccine in the 100 days or not at all compared to only 88 patients with the vaccine within the 100 days.

The numbers in sample are low due to trying to equalize almost any demographic you can think of between the samples and also have other treatment data on the patients, and they are going thru historical data that wasn’t collected for this particular study or by the people now doing the analysis. The samples without vaccine are much higher in numbers, and they really need more of the vaccine sample for both cancers. I guess they didn’t have the numbers to match demographics and so on to get any more. It does leave open possibility of manipulation of sample sizes to get desired result, but I don’t think they have a motivation to do so here unlike some of the analyses done in support of vaccine and/or booster over natural immunity.

These can be helpful especially in conjunction with actual closed or controlled studies, but by themselves and how much smaller the sample ends up being can make results more about the ones the finally chose to compare.

It does sound interesting, and what I did also read is that it has triggered a phase III trial to try and validate these results.

quote:

MD Anderson Research News October 19, 2025

Cancer patients who received mRNA COVID vaccines within 100 days of starting immunotherapy were twice as likely to be alive three years after treatment as those who never received a vaccine

These findings have prompted a randomized Phase III trial to determine if mRNA COVID vaccines should be part of the standard of care for this type of therapy

If validated, findings could significantly increase the number of patients who benefit from immunotherapy



https://www.mdanderson.org/newsroom/research-newsroom/-esmo-2025--mrna-based-covid-vaccines-generate-improved-response.h00-159780390.html
This post was edited on 10/25/25 at 8:25 pm
Posted by Lou Loomis
A pond. Ponds good for you.
Member since Mar 2025
879 posts
Posted on 10/25/25 at 8:26 pm to
Ever since Bezos bought the Post, it is a propaganda arm of the insane left. Even worse than before. There is nothing they write that you can believe.
Posted by Coach Yo
New Orleans
Member since Apr 2004
437 posts
Posted on 10/26/25 at 8:29 am to
Except that the study was published in Nature…not the WaPo
Posted by UltimaParadox
North Carolina
Member since Nov 2008
50324 posts
Posted on 10/26/25 at 9:03 am to
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Lou Loomis


A very broken poster.

As stated before not sure how anyone takes this except as good news. I think this will further research into the future of cancer treatments which was always heading towards immunotherapy instead of the very damaging chemotherapy approaches we mostly use today
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