CathMack

RN with a background in critical care, health regulation and a Masters degree in Health Management. Believer in science. Proud 🇨🇦

[Anish Moonka @anishmoonka]

Cancer patients who happened to get a regular COVID shot kept outliving the ones who didn't. The lung cancer patients who got it lived about 37 months. The ones who skipped it lived 21. A flu shot did nothing, only the COVID kind, and nobody planned it.

Doctors at MD Anderson, one of the top cancer hospitals in the US, dug through more than a thousand patient records. Everyone in the group had advanced cancer and was on the same kind of treatment, called immunotherapy, which turns your own immune system loose on the tumor. The only difference was whether they'd also gotten a Pfizer or Moderna shot within about three months of starting. The ones who had lived far longer. Three years in, 56 out of 100 vaccinated lung cancer patients were still alive, against 31 out of 100 who weren't.

The shot doesn't teach your body what the tumor looks like. It just trips an alarm. Your immune system sends cells into a tumor, and a lot of them go quiet and stop fighting. The mRNA in the vaccine, the same stuff in the COVID jab, acts like a fire alarm. It wakes those cells up, pulls them back to the lymph nodes where the immune system regroups, and sends them out hunting. The cancer gets caught in the sweep.

That accident is the seed of what people now call a universal cancer vaccine. The goal is one shot that works against any cancer, precisely because it isn't aimed at a specific one. It wakes the body up and lets the body do the rest.

A University of Florida team led by Dr. Elias Sayour has been after this for more than eight years. In 2018 they found that even random genetic instructions, nothing to do with any tumor, could stir the immune system in mice. In 2024 they ran their first human test, a custom-built version, on four patients with one of the deadliest brain cancers, and watched it switch the immune system on within days. Last year they built a one-size-fits-all version that erased tumors completely in some mice with skin, bone, and brain cancer.

It's early, and a little caution is fair. The tumor-erasing results are still in mice. The human survival numbers come from digging through old records, not a clean head-to-head trial. That trial is being set up now.

The detail that stuck with the researchers: the people who gained the most were the ones whose cancer the immune system usually walks right past. In that group, a plain COVID shot lined up with being nearly five times as likely to be alive three years later.

[CathMack @mack_cath]

@jakescottMD @joncoopertweets Devastating illness, took care of a 15 year old girl in the PICU with meningococcemia, I will never forget her. Quickly deteriorated into multi system organ failure, put on ECMO as last ditch but sadly she passed away. I was her nurse and attended her funeral, dad was a doc 💔

[CathMack @mack_cath]

@alandrummond2 Amen!!!!

[CathMack @mack_cath]

@alandrummond2 Thank you for your service, Doctor 🙂

[CBC News @CBCNews]

The man behind an iconic Canadian beer ad is back, 25 years later, with a new patriotic rallying cry. https://t.co/90rTVznfJR

[CathMack @mack_cath]

@CaptShehata 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻

[CathMack @mack_cath]

@alandrummond2 I read this thread yesterday and thought about him and his wife all day. As a former nurse in a hospital setting (many years ago cause I saw early on how nurses were treated and no thanks!). This is truly heartbreaking and the ON government should be ashamed of itself. Praying

[CALL TO ACTIVISM @CalltoActivism]

BREAKING NEWS

Trump CAVES again and postpones all tariffs on Canada after millions of dollars of goods were already removed from Canadian shelves.

In return, Canada has agreed to continue commitments already agreed to under Biden. Art of the deal. 🤡

[CathMack @mack_cath]

@DahliaKurtz Fingers crossed!

[Brandon Luu, MD @BrandonLuuMD]

Light therapy vs. SSRI for Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD):
📊 Comparable response and remission rates
⏱️ Light therapy delivered faster relief
💡 Fewer side effects with light therapy

Let's dive into the study 🧵 1/11

[Ivanka Trump @IvankaTrump]

“For beautiful eyes, look for the good in others; for beautiful lips, speak only words of kindness; and for poise, walk with the knowledge that you are never alone.” —Audrey Hepburn

[Sassafrass84 @Sassafrass_84]

Nailed it. Gen x is a totally different breed. FAFO

[Nicholas Fabiano, MD @NTFabiano]

Full YouTube video: https://t.co/8OTfFBxpmv

[CathMack @mack_cath]

I am having a hard time understanding why all of humanity isn’t screaming “MAKE IT STOP”

May his memory be a revolution and all strength and love to his unbelievable family 🌹

May the remaining hostages stay strong and survive until they can be reunited with their loved ones

[Aviva Klompas @AvivaKlompas]

Rachel Goldberg-Polin: "Ok sweet boy, go now on your journey. I hope it's as good as the trips you dreamed about because finally, my sweet boy, finally, finally, finally, finally you are free.

I will love you and I will miss you every single day for the rest of my life, but you're right here. I know you're right here. I just have to teach myself how to feel you in a different way.

And Hersh there is one last thing I need you to do for us. Now I need you to help us stay strong and I need you to help us survive"

[CathMack @mack_cath]

@AvivaKlompas …your allies’ hearts are also broken…shattered and mourning with you 🌹

[Madame Julie @MadameJulie007]

#WomenAgainstPoilievre

[CathMack @mack_cath]

@ElonMNews A

[CathMack @mack_cath]

@DennisKendel Heartfelt condolences 🌹, may her memory be a blessing

[CathMack @mack_cath]

@alandrummond2 So brutal, I’m sorry 😔💔