Are Covid-19 Vaccines Safe For Cancer Patients? A Critical Analysis
Aside from a few cases and theoretical concerns of post-vaccine cancer progression, the vaccines are safe.
On the one hand, cancer patients are advised to get more shots of the Covid-19 vaccine because of their weakened immune systems. On the other hand, precisely because of their weakened immunity, unnecessary vaccinations may put more burden on the immune system, a few experts theorized.
A meta-analysis of 29 studies calculated that the acceptance of Covid-19 vaccines among cancer patients was just 59%. That’s almost half of the cancer patients who feel hesitant about the vaccine. Concerns about vaccine safety were the main reason for the hesitancy.
But is such vaccine hesitancy warranted?
Let’s see what the available data has to say.
(This article is inspired by Haley Broocks, M.S., a speech pathologist, who wrote to me about her mother, who passed away unexpectedly from cancer progression after her fifth vaccine shot.)
Lack of randomized controlled trial (RCT) data
Such vaccine hesitancy probably stems from a lack of definitive data.
