How do COVID-19 vaccines boost cancer treatments?

How Covid-19 vaccines boost cancer treatments

October 28, 2025

By Coralie Lemke THE Subscribers

RNA vaccines against SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes Covid-19, could boost certain cancer treatments, to the point of almost doubling patients' life expectancy. Here's how.

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A large study published in Nature suggests that people vaccinated against Covid-19 at the start of their cancer treatment would have a life expectancy almost doubled.

What does this study show?

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