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Fact and fiction regarding prostate cancer? Fish oil, vaccines, etc.
Prostate Cancer | Last Active: Mar 8 3:07pm | Replies (30)Comment receiving replies
IF there is any correlation ( for the sake of the argument) , PC would be nudged more by COVID infection itself and not as much by vaccine since COVID infection causes MUCH bigger and stronger immune reaction and COVID virus lingers much longer in the body - for some people 2 weeks or even more.
So IF there is any correlation it would sooner be between ACTIVE COVID INFECTION where the WHOLE virus is present in a body and not by vaccination since vaccine has only fragments of the RNA of the virus (just the parts that make spikes).
COVID virus DOES attach to prostate gland and can cause PSA rising during active COVID infection.
Inflammation can cause cancer - it is big cancer promoter. I personally do not think that COVID infection causes cancer but I would not bet on the fact that it does not have a potential to "aggravate" already existing cancer or mets.
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@surftohealth88 There are three interesting small-scale, non-causal correlations I've read about:
1. Jurisdictions that have older populations tended to have higher vaccination rates and higher cancer rates (but the COVID vaccinations didn't change the cancer rates before/after).
2. Jurisdictions that have more actively health-seeking populations tend to have higher vaccination rates and higher cancer *diagnosis* rates, but lower cancer *mortality* rates (because their cancer often gets detected earlier, when it's more treatable).
3. In many jurisdictions there was a fall in cancer diagnosis rates during the first couple of years of the pandemic when people stayed home, then an increase the next couple of year after people started going to see the doctor again, which gave the false impression of a surge in cancer after vaccination (but it disappeared once doctors cleared the backlog).