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by continued safety monitoring once the vaccine is rolled out to the public to detect potential rare side effects. In addition, the Food and Drug Administration inspects vaccine production facilities and reviews manufacturing protocols to make sure vaccine doses are of high-quality and free of contaminants.</span></p> <p><span>One key </span><a href="https://www.cdc.gov/vaccinesafety/ensuringsafety/monitoring/index.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><span>vaccine safety surveillance program</span></a><span> is the </span><a href="https://www.cdc.gov/vaccinesafety/ensuringsafety/monitoring/vaers/index.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><span>Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System</span></a><span>, or VAERS, which is an early warning system run by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and FDA. As its website </span><a href="https://vaers.hhs.gov/faq.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><span>explains</span></a><span>, VAERS “is not designed to detect if a vaccine caused an adverse event, but it can identify unusual or unexpected patterns of reporting that might indicate possible safety problems requiring a closer look.”</span></p> <p><span>Anyone can submit a report to VAERS for any health problem that occurs after an immunization. There is no screening or vetting of the report and </span><a href="https://vaers.hhs.gov/data/dataguide.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><span>no attempt</span></a><span> to determine if the vaccine was responsible for the problem. The information is </span><a href="https://www.cdc.gov/vaccinesafety/ensuringsafety/monitoring/vaers/index.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><span>still valuable</span></a><span> because it’s a way of being quickly alerted to a potential safety issue with a vaccine, which can then be followed-up by government scientists.</span></p> <p><span>Another monitoring system is the CDC’s </span><a href="https://www.cdc.gov/vaccinesafety/ensuringsafety/monitoring/vsd/index.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><span>Vaccine Safety Datalink</span></a><span>, which uses electronic health data from nine health care organizations in the U.S. to identify adverse events related to vaccination in near real time.</span></p> <p><span>In the case of the COVID-19 vaccines, randomized controlled trials involving tens of thousands of people, which were reviewed by multiple groups of experts, revealed no serious safety issues and showed that the benefits outweigh the risks.</span></p> <p><span>The CDC and FDA vaccine safety monitoring systems, which were expanded for the COVID-19 vaccines and also include a new smartphone-based reporting tool called </span><a href="https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/vaccines/safety/vsafe.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><span>v-safe</span></a><span>, have subsequently identified only a few, very rare adverse events. </span></p> <p><span>For more, see “</span><a href="https://www.factcheck.org/scicheck_digest/how-safe-are-the-vaccines/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><span>How safe are the vaccines?</span></a><span>”</span></p> <p><a href="https://www.factcheck.org/scicheck_digest/how-do-we-know-vaccines-are-safe/" class="small">Link to this</a></p> </div> </div> </div> </div> <hr class="wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity"/> <h2 class="wp-block-heading">Full Story</h2> <p>Breast cancer in American women under 50 <a href="https://perma.cc/5XKT-ZTVG" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">increased</a> gradually from the mid-1990s through 2019, with a somewhat steeper rise starting in 2016. The rate of female breast cancer also <a href="https://perma.cc/WRP4-RKDE" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">rose</a> slowly in <a href="https://perma.cc/KUA4-BE8E" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">older women</a> from the mid-2000s through 2019.</p> <div class="wp-block-image"> <figure class="alignleft"><img decoding="async" data-pin-description="Q&A on the End of the COVID-19 Public Health Emergency - FactCheck.org" src="https://cdn.factcheck.org/UploadedFiles/SciCHECKsquare_4-161x145.png" alt=""/></figure></div> <p>Researchers <a href="https://www.cancer.org/content/dam/cancer-org/research/cancer-facts-and-statistics/annual-cancer-facts-and-figures/2023/2023-cancer-facts-and-figures.pdf#page=13" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">say</a> these changes were likely at least partly due to changes in when people begin having children and, for older women, increasing body weight. Being overweight after menopause or having children later in life <a href="https://www.cdc.gov/cancer/breast/basic_info/risk_factors.htm" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">increases</a> the risk of breast cancer.</p> <p>Breast cancer <a href="https://seer.cancer.gov/data/covid-impact.html" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">incidence</a> <a href="https://www.cdc.gov/cancer/uscs/about/data-briefs/no35-USCS-highlights-2020.htm" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">fell</a> for all women and <a href="https://perma.cc/5XKT-ZTVG" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">women under 50</a> in 2020, likely because disruptions to health care appointments during the pandemic led to missed diagnoses. The year 2020 is the <a href="https://www.cdc.gov/cancer/dcpc/data/index.htm" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">latest one</a> for which official federal statistics on cancer incidence are available.</p> <div class="infogram-embed" data-id="_/TQgdQY8B2R2QQsWUmHb8" data-type="interactive" data-title="breast cancer incidence rates"></div><script>!function(e,i,n,s){var t="InfogramEmbeds",d=e.getElementsByTagName("script")[0];if(window[t]&&window[t].initialized)window[t].process&&window[t].process();else if(!e.getElementById(n)){var o=e.createElement("script");o.async=1,o.id=n,o.src="https://e.infogram.com/js/dist/embed-loader-min.js",d.parentNode.insertBefore(o,d)}}(document,0,"infogram-async");</script> <p>The American Cancer Society, a nonprofit organization, provides <a href="https://www.cancer.org/research/cancer-facts-statistics/all-cancer-facts-figures/2023-cancer-facts-figures.html" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">estimates</a> of annual new cancer cases through 2023, but these projections are based on models <a href="https://acsjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.3322/caac.21763" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">using data</a> from 2019 and earlier. </p> <p>Yet a popular post on <a href="https://perma.cc/RCG2-HJE5" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">TikTok</a>, which also was shared on <a href="https://perma.cc/XL6B-F8BK" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Facebook</a>, misrepresents these ACS projections, using them to give the false appearance of a large spike in breast cancer cases in women younger than 45 in 2022 and 2023. </p> <p><a href="https://medicine.yale.edu/profile/ilana-richman/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Dr. Ilana Richman</a>, a general internist and health services researcher at Yale School of Medicine who studies cancer screening, told us via email that “there are a few clear misrepresentations” of the breast cancer case numbers cited in the video.</p> <p>The video compares projections for breast cancer cases in different age groups while leading viewers to believe they are being shown case numbers just for women under 45.</p> <p>“Something’s going on here … ’22 and ’23, there is a huge boom in cancer, especially in female breast cancer in younger ages of 45 and down below,” states TikTok user James Bishop, a self-proclaimed “numbers guy” who <a href="https://perma.cc/X3XD-GGXE" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">identifies himself</a> as a husband, father, musician, retired firefighter, paramedic and educator. </p> <p>But Bishop is wrong. The supposed “boom” in breast cancer is based on a comparison between projected case numbers in women under 45 a few years ago to later projected estimates for all women or those under 50.</p> <p>Further, the ACS projections are <a href="https://www.cancer.org/research/cancer-facts-statistics/all-cancer-facts-figures/2023-cancer-facts-figures.html" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">not meant</a> for assessing trends in cancer incidence. And the ACS <a href="https://acsjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.3322/caac.21763" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">states</a> that these <a href="https://www.cancer.org/research/cancer-facts-statistics/all-cancer-facts-figures/cancer-facts-figures-2022.html" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">estimates</a> do not “reflect” or “account for” the <a href="https://acsjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.3322/caac.21654" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">effects</a> of the pandemic.</p> <p>The post also implies that COVID-19 vaccines led to increased breast cancer risk in 2022 and 2023, but there is <a href="https://www.cancer.gov/about-cancer/coronavirus/covid-19-vaccines-people-with-cancer" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">no evidence</a> of an<a href="https://www.cancer.org/cancer/managing-cancer/coronavirus-covid-19-and-cancer/covid-19-vaccines-in-people-with-cancer.html" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"> increased risk of cancer</a> following <a href="https://www.factcheck.org/2021/04/scicheck-idaho-doctor-makes-baseless-claims-about-safety-of-covid-19-vaccines/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">vaccination</a>. “[T]here is no mechanistic reason why covid vaccines would cause cancer,” Richman said.</p> <h2 class="wp-block-heading has-text-align-center">Video Falsely Portrays Data on Frequency of Breast Cancer</h2> <p>The video misleads in part by showing blurry images of ACS tables and making it appear that various numbers are comparable.</p> <p>For <a href="https://www.cancer.org/content/dam/cancer-org/research/cancer-facts-and-statistics/annual-cancer-facts-and-figures/2019/estimated-new-cases-for-the-four-major-cancers-by-sex-and-age-group-2019.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">2019</a> <a href="https://www.cancer.org/content/dam/cancer-org/research/cancer-facts-and-statistics/annual-cancer-facts-and-figures/2020/estimated-number-new-cases-by-sex-and-age-group-2020.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">through</a> <a href="https://www.cancer.org/content/dam/cancer-org/research/cancer-facts-and-statistics/annual-cancer-facts-and-figures/2021/2021-case-estimates-by-age.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">2021</a>, Bishop correctly says that ACS projected about 26,500 new cases of breast cancer each year for women under 45. But for <a href="https://www.cancer.org/content/dam/cancer-org/research/cancer-facts-and-statistics/annual-cancer-facts-and-figures/2022/2022-case-estimates-by-age.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">2022</a>, he misleadingly gives a projection — 47,550 — for women under 50. He does not make it clear that this number reflects a wider age range, instead claiming that the cases are “double.”</p> <p>“There are about <a href="https://data.census.gov/table?tid=ACSST1Y2021.S0101" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">10 million women</a> in the US between age 45 and 50. So shifting the age cutoff from 45 to 50 increases the population size in that age group and of course will result in a larger number of cancer cases being reported,” Richman said. “Women age 46-50 are also at higher risk of breast cancer than women 45 and younger.”</p> <p>Female breast cancer risk <a href="https://www.cancer.org/content/dam/cancer-org/research/cancer-facts-and-statistics/breast-cancer-facts-and-figures/2022-2024-breast-cancer-fact-figures-acs.pdf#page=6" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">increases</a> until a woman is in her 70s, according to an ACS report that uses data from the National Cancer Institute and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. A woman’s chance of getting breast cancer is 1 in 1,439 in her 20s, 1 in 204 in her 30s, 1 in 63 in her 40s and 1 in 41 in her 50s, the data show.</p> <p>The ACS estimates for total female breast cancer cases projected a slight annual increase in cases, but no “large jump,” Richman said. “So bottom line, there is no large increase in cancer cases in 2022. The ACS simply changed the age groupings it used,” she added.</p> <p>The video continues to grossly mislead, with Bishop highlighting the number 297,000 on a table for 2023 and saying, “and the year ain’t over yet.”</p> <p>But 297,790 is the <a href="https://www.cancer.org/content/dam/cancer-org/research/cancer-facts-and-statistics/annual-cancer-facts-and-figures/2023/2023-cancer-facts-and-figures.pdf#page=7" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">projected</a> number of new breast cancer cases in all women in the U.S., not just women 45 and under, which Bishop does not make clear. And this is the projected number of cases for the entire year of 2023, not just the year so far. </p> <p>“Most breast cancers occur in women older than 45 so of course the number of cases will be much higher in the total US population,” Richman said.</p> <p>Again, Richman said, the total case projection is “not that different” than in past years. “It is somewhat higher but not by a factor of 10, like he is insinuating,” she said, referring to the implication that the number of cases skyrocketed in 2023 compared with 2019 through 2021.</p> <p>The video claims that an equivalent table is not yet available for 2023, but it is. For women under 50, the <a href="https://www.cancer.org/content/dam/cancer-org/research/cancer-facts-and-statistics/annual-cancer-facts-and-figures/2023/sd1-cases-4-cancers-2023-cff.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">projected</a> number of new cases is 48,780. As we said, ACS’ 2022 projection was 47,550. And ACS’ projected total new cases for 2022 was 287,850, not radically different from the 2023 estimate of 297,790. </p> <p>Again, these are projections, not figures that represent actual reported cases, as Bishop makes it seem.</p> <div class="wp-block-image"> <figure class="alignleft size-full"><img fetchpriority="high" decoding="async" width="400" height="267" src="https://cdn.factcheck.org/UploadedFiles/breast-cancer-400x267-1.jpeg" alt="" class="wp-image-236919" srcset="https://cdn.factcheck.org/UploadedFiles/breast-cancer-400x267-1.jpeg 400w, https://cdn.factcheck.org/UploadedFiles/breast-cancer-400x267-1-217x145.jpeg 217w" sizes="(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px" /><figcaption class="wp-element-caption"><em>Photo by Pixel-Shot / </em><a href="https://stock.adobe.com/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">stock.adobe.com</a></figcaption></figure></div> <p>It’s important to note that the data Bishop is inaccurately presenting isn’t meant to be used to infer trends in cancer incidence in the first place. The tables providing projected cases by age group say at the bottom: “Note: Estimates should not be compared with those from previous years.” This is because these estimates are based on modeled data “and vary from year to year for reasons other than changes in cancer occurrence,” ACS <a href="https://www.cancer.org/research/cancer-facts-statistics/all-cancer-facts-figures/2023-cancer-facts-figures.html" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">says</a> elsewhere on its website.</p> <p>For instance, ACS says it <a href="https://acsjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.3322/caac.21763" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">updates</a> its models over time, and changes in methodology could lead to apparent changes in cancer incidence.</p> <p>Richman pointed out that breast cancer case numbers depend on factors such as the size of the population and whether it is aging — a growing or aging population will lead to a higher number of breast cancer cases. This is why it is better to monitor changes using data on incidence, or the “number of cases per person over a defined period of time, often adjusted to account for differences in the age composition of the population over time,” she said.</p> <p>Further, the ACS case projections rely on past incidence statistics from the North American Association of Central Cancer Registries, which draws on data collected by the NCI and CDC. These data provide a comprehensive sense of cancer incidence in the U.S., but the availability of the data lags by several years.</p> <p>All of the case estimates mentioned in Bishop’s video are based on modeling that relies on data from before the pandemic, so these models would be unable to pick up on any pandemic-related trends. </p> <p>Researchers <a href="https://acsjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.3322/caac.21708" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">expected</a> that disruptions in access to health care due to the pandemic may have led to a temporary decrease in cancer incidence, due to <a href="https://www.cancer.org/content/dam/cancer-org/research/cancer-facts-and-statistics/annual-cancer-facts-and-figures/2022/2022-cancer-facts-and-figures.pdf#page=3" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">delayed or missed</a> screenings, follow-up appointments and appointments to ask about new symptoms. </p> <p>As we’ve said, this decrease in incidence is now showing up in the most recently available comprehensive national data. 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