Are Cancer Vaccines an Effective Treatment for Cancer?

ByPrimary Researcher

Executive Summary

  • There are many claims that viruses cause some cancers and that many cancers can be addressed with cancer vaccines.
  • We analyze this claim to see how likely this is to be true.

Introduction

Virologists have claimed for years that viruses cause several cancers and that cancer vaccines to stop cancer are right around the corner. Let us review the evidence and the incentives of those presenting this hypothesis to see how likely this is to be true.

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Major Cancer Establishment Entities Support the Idea That Viruses Cause Cancer

Here is an excellent example of the claims of viruses causing cancer from the prestigious MD Anderson Cancer Center.

Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) is spread through infected semen, vaginal fluids, blood and breast milk. While it does not cause cancer directly, researchers believe it increases the risk of cancer by damaging the immune system, which reduces the body’s defenses against other oncoviruses. It can enable other oncoviruses to cause cancer.

They are also unsure if HIV causes AIDS and, therefore, if a virus causes AIDS. These transmission methods are hypotheses based upon the foundational hypothesis that HIV causes AIDS, and the medical establishment has had decades to prove the hypothesis and has been unable to do so. After tens of billions of dollars spent following this research pathway, there is still no HIV vaccine, even though it was promised by the NIH decades ago. Furthermore, some people with HIV do not have AIDS, and others with AIDS do not have HIV. Finally, the virus held accountable for AIDS is a type of retrovirus, and all other known retroviruses do not cause the host to become ill but instead splice themselves into the host’s DNA and are harmless. The health authorities stated that there was a massive risk of infection from AIDS, producing a Covid like panic over sexual protection; however, since the AIDS epidemic began, the US has around the same number of people with AIDS as in the mid-1980s.

Therefore the correlation between HIV and AIDS is not clear. Therefore, this quote from MD Anderson is wrong in multiple dimensions. Naturally, anything that reduces the immune system, including viruses or immunosuppressive drugs to treat autoimmune diseases, increases the likelihood of cancer. However, this is not the same as virus-causing cancer.

After decades of claiming that viruses cause cancer, virologists have failed to do what they said they would be providing cancer vaccines for different types of cancer. Therefore, the information in the MD Anderson article promoting this hypothesis is in question.

This claim about HIV is repeated at VeryWellHealth.

The immunosuppression caused by HIV can predispose people with the disease to cancer because immune cells do not effectively fight cancer cells when a person is infected with HIV.

Notice the terms used.

“can predispose,”

This is not a direct connection. And this gets back to the topic of a weakened immune system rather than a direct connection.

The Undeniable Relationship Between the Immune System and Cancer

Viruses reduce the immune system’s effectiveness, which protects against developing cancer and repairs the body, and kills cancerous cells before they become tumors.

However, this is not the same thing as establishing that viruses have a direct mechanism where they cause cancer. Furthermore, as is covered in the Immunity section of this website, we explain all things that can be used to improve the immune system. However, the oncology field is not interested in promoting any of these natural improvements — and I believe it is because they don’t make money from them.

Cancers Take Years to Develop from Viruses?

This quote is from VeryWellHealth.

Many virus-associated cancers can take years to become symptomatic, which makes it difficult to know this percentage with certainty.

Why does it take cancers so long to appear after the person contracts the cancer-causing virus? How, then, do oncologists know that the virus caused the cancer?

Here is how VeryWellHealth explains the mechanism by which viruses cause cancer.

  1. Genetic damage or mutations (errors in genetic material)
  2. Altering the immune system so that it is less able to fight off cancer cells (which could have initially developed due to something other than the virus)
  3. Chronic inflammation
  4. Disrupting the body’s normal regulation of cell division

It is not clear whether there is a proper mechanism being described here. If we take items #2 and #3, they are general immune system degradation. But viruses are one of many things that can degrade an immune system.