Are both COVID-19 and COVID-19 vaccines associated with cancer?

Raphael Lataster1 1 Independent Researcher, The University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW 2000, Australia Correspondence to: Raphael Lataster, email:[email protected], ORCID:orcid.org/0000-0002-6670-1702 Keywords: COVID-19; COVID-19 vaccines; cancer; double standards Received: April 08, 2026 Accepted: August 25, 2026 Published: September 11, 2026 Copyright: © 2026 Lataster. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY 4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.

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Oncotarget
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2026-09-11
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https://doi.org/10.18632/oncotarget.28918
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Are both COVID-19 and COVID-19 vaccines associated with cancer?

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Are both COVID-19 and COVID-19 vaccines associated with cancer?

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Abstract

Raphael Lataster1 1 Independent Researcher, The University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW 2000, Australia Correspondence to: Raphael Lataster, email:[email protected], ORCID:orcid.org/0000-0002-6670-1702 Keywords: COVID-19; COVID-19 vaccines; cancer; double standards Received: April 08, 2026 Accepted: August 25, 2026 Published: September 11, 2026 Copyright: © 2026 Lataster. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY 4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.

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