The Claim:
In a tweet, a former Canadian radiologist shares an email he received from a patient claiming the COVID vaccine caused his turbo cancer and ivermectin cured him.
The Facts:
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.
Vaccines are not shown to cause cancer, and anti-vaxxers have yet to produce credible evidence the vaccine is causing turbo cancers. And while ivermectin has been studied as a treatment for cancer, we have no definitive studies showing it can cure cancer at this time.
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