Researchers Credit Flu Shots & Viagra With Cancer Prevention

The flu shot is a perennial cause of both controversy and scorn. This year’s flu shot was seemingly so ineffective that it led to one of the worst flu seasons ever recorded (at least if we listen to the media). Yet, year after year, the herd is indoctrinated to push for more flu shots. If you work in corporate America, it is reasonable to assume you’ve been accosted about taking a flu shot. If you are a nurse or someone who works in the medical field, it is possible you were forced to do so or fired for non-compliance.

Health officials, no matter how dire the effectiveness of the flu shot is, will always contend that taking the flu shot is better than passing on it. And it that’s not enough, health officials can also be rather inventive in their justifications for pushing a medicine that just seems to flop.

The next wave might be that the flu shot stops cancer from returning in patients who have previously survived cancer. Researchers at the University of Ottawa in Canada are claiming that when you combine a flu shot with tadalafil (which is really the erectile drug, Cialis) or sildenafil (that’s Viagra), you can “remove a block of the immune system” that happens during post-surgery metastasis. In other words, following a cancer surgery, your odds for getting cancer again rise. According to researchers at the University of Ottawa, the solution might be to take a flu shot and some Viagra.

Of course, the study was carried out on mice. But it definitely puts on full display the great lengths we go to in order to push the use of a flu shot. I wasn’t there, I didn’t carry out the study, I can’t say either way if the results are valid and if they could ever translate to improved human health. But I can say that more and more it feels as though the flu shot is inserted into any possible media crevice as a way to paint it in a pretty light.

The flu shots annual condemnation seems to cause media outlets and researchers alike to tout it in any creative way possible.

The concept here is that cancer surgery tends to block the immune system from targetting remaining cancer cells.  These remaining cancer cells, without any friction from the immune system, are able to spread and grow once again. Somehow, combining some Viagra and a flu shot will help right this ship.

There is now a clinical trial on 24 people in Canada who are having abdominal tumors removed. So yes, the guinea pig sessions have begun.

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