Do vaccines cause terminal cancer?

A video going around features Dr. William Makis, who claims that, since the rollout of the COVID vaccines, there has been a significant increase in young people, particularly women in their 20s, presenting with aggressive stage 4 cancers, such as breast and colon cancer.

Makis claims that he is seeing more patients with sudden onset stage 4 cancers in their 20s. It’s really important to know that his medical license is inactive, so he is not seeing patients. His evidence is not based in epidemiological, scientific, or personal experience.

Secondly, breast cancers, even stage 4, are not new. According to this study, “breast cancer is the most common cancer of adolescents and young adult (AYA) women aged 15 to 39 years, accounting for 5.6% of all invasive breast cancer in women.” Additionally, younger women are more likely to be diagnosed with advanced-stage breast cancer than older women.

Additionally, no evidence supports the claim that COVID vaccines cause so-called turbo cancer or any other form of cancer. The idea that these turbo cancers are a result of vaccines stems, in part, from claims that doctors are seeing huge spikes in cancer rates. However, even some of the most powerful carcinogens can take years to manifest in the form of cancer. While there has been an increase in early-onset cancers (not turbo cancer), this increase started in the early 1990s, well before the introduction of COVID vaccines.

COVID vaccines are not shown to cause cancer, and those peddling misinformation have yet to produce credible evidence the vaccine is causing turbo cancers.

Read more of our posts debunking claims about COVID vaccines and cancer.