Turbo-Cancers: Science, or Junk?

By Ana-Marija Dolaskie — Jun 11, 2025
A curious term has emerged among the anti-vaccine community, following the Covid pandemic, that has scientists baffled as to how it could be receiving much online attention. Are turbo-cancers real? Or just another overblown scare?

Vaccines are meant to help, not harm. So you can imagine our surprise when we first heard of the intriguing term gaining popularity among the anti-vaccine crowd: turbo-cancer. The term references fear-based theory regarding the safety of Covid vaccines and fuels misinformation about aggressive, fast growing cancer tumors.

 

 

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