McCullough says 66 peer-reviewed papers suggest infection and COVID vaccines probably tilt the balance toward cancer, with vaccines doing so more.

Nov 7, 2026

Previously: Sixty-six peer-reviewed papers show that both COVID-19 infection and vaccines increase the risk of cancer. [Distorted]: The paper exists: a review by Kuperwasser and El-Deiry in Oncotarget found 69 publications, 66 of them reports on individual patients or small case series covering 333 people. The authors say this does not establish that COVID or the vaccines cause cancer. They call it an early safety signal and note that case reports are prone to selective publishing and lack comparison groups. Calling these 66 papers proof that infection and vaccines raise cancer risk overstates what the reviewers concluded. Controlled population studies showing higher cancer rates in vaccinated or infected people would change this verdict.

Now: McCullough says 66 peer-reviewed papers suggest infection and COVID vaccines probably tilt the balance toward cancer, with vaccines doing so more. [Distorted]: The Kuperwasser/El-Deiry review is real and includes 66 case-level reports among 69 publications. McCullough says 'probably,' a hedge our original summary omitted. Nevertheless, the review frames these as preliminary signals and calls for causal studies; it does not establish that vaccination increases cancer risk more than infection. Case timing and possible mechanisms do not quantify causal incidence.

Restore the speaker's hedge while retaining the source-supported correction of causal scope.