The Quiet Spike: Why We Should Examine the Rise in Triple-Negative Breast Cancer Post-COVID
I’ve been watching something quietly unfold. More women — young, healthy women — are being diagnosed with aggressive forms of breast cancer, like triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC). Some found a lump just weeks after receiving the COVID-19 vaccine. Others went in for post-vaccine swelling only to discover a tumor.
The official explanation has been consistent: “It was missed.”
Screenings were delayed during the pandemic, so naturally, more advanced cancers are showing up now. And yes, there’s some truth to that. But what if that’s not the whole story?
What if the intense immune response caused by these vaccines didn’t just coincide with diagnosis — but played a role in revealing or accelerating what was already there?
That question alone shouldn’t offend anyone. It’s not anti-vaccine to ask hard questions. It’s pro-woman. It’s pro-truth. It’s faithful discernment.
There’s a heaviness I’ve been carrying. A quiet alarm in my spirit—and maybe in yours, too. We all lived through something massive. The pandemic reshaped our families, our institutions, our health care systems, and our relationship with truth itself. And while I thank God for the wisdom that carried many of us through, I also believe it’s time we start asking harder, more uncomfortable questions — especially as women.
In recent years, I’ve heard too many stories—some from friends, some from strangers—about fast-moving breast cancer diagnoses that came unexpectedly. Often, the timeline is striking: “I got the shot... then something didn’t feel right.” Swelling. Pain. A lump. A diagnosis. What’s most disturbing is not just the medical outcome — but the silence that surrounds it. The refusal to even consider a connection. The gaslighting.
As a woman of faith, I’m not anti-medicine. I’m not anti-science. But I am pro-truth. And I believe our God does not bless silence that protects power at the expense of the vulnerable.
A Rise We Can’t Ignore
Data from Brazil, Australia, and hospital systems across the U.S. show that after COVID-19 hit, the rate of aggressive, fast-growing triple-negative breast cancers nearly doubled in some populations. These cancers don’t respond to hormone therapy and are disproportionately diagnosed in younger women and women of color.
Yes, screenings were paused. But what about the tumors that progressed unnaturally fast? What about the women whose symptoms emerged weeks after receiving the vaccine? At the very least, shouldn’t we be curious?
How Might a Vaccine Influence Cancer?
To be clear, no scientific study has proven that COVID-19 vaccines cause cancer. But here’s what we do know: these vaccines trigger powerful immune responses. In most people, that’s a good thing — it teaches the body to fight. But for someone with a pre-existing vulnerability, could that same immune surge create a window of weakness? Could it suppress the immune system’s ability to catch rogue cancer cells, even briefly?
COVID vaccines also generate short-term inflammation. And prolonged inflammation is a known driver of cancer growth. What happens when that inflammatory response occurs in a body already prone to imbalance, stress, or immune dysfunction?
These are fair, thoughtful, and necessary questions — the kind science should be asking.
The Medical Gaslighting Problem
Too many women have shared eerily similar stories — a breast lump, a diagnosis of triple-negative breast cancer that seemed to come out of nowhere. When they raise the question of timing, they’re not met with thoughtful analysis — they’re met with ridicule.
This is gaslighting. It erodes trust and it robs women of the chance to be heard and healed. We should be listening to patterns, not silencing them.
It’s Not Anti-Vax to Ask Questions
You can believe in medical innovation and still hold the line of discernment. You can be grateful for the lives vaccines may have saved — while also advocating for the lives that may have been harmed. God is big enough to hold both truths. We should be too.
Scripture tells us to “test all things; hold fast what is good” (1 Thessalonians 5:21). In today’s world, even that kind of biblical wisdom is treated like rebellion. But when did discernment become dangerous? When did careful observation become taboo?
The Cost of Silence
If even a small number of triple-negative breast cancer cases are connected to immune disruption from these vaccines, that’s worth knowing. Not to assign blame — but to empower better screening, better diagnostics, and better protection for women.
Women deserve more than pat answers. We deserve medical systems that respect our bodies, our timelines, and our concerns. We deserve truth rooted in courage, transparency, and compassion.
