# Claims About Newborn Vitamin K Shots and Childhood Cancer

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- Source language: English
- Duration: 2:37
- Published: 2026-11-10
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## Transcript

[0:00](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/lSCdtYp3qWzA/en/claims-about-newborn-vitamin-k-shots-and-childhood-cancer) Three studies link newborn vitamin K shots to higher odds of childhood cancer.

[0:07](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/lSCdtYp3qWzA/en/claims-about-newborn-vitamin-k-shots-and-childhood-cancer?t=7) All three studies were published in the British Medical Journal, reporting up to a hundred and sixty-five percent higher odds of childhood leukemia following vitamin K injections at birth.

[0:20](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/lSCdtYp3qWzA/en/claims-about-newborn-vitamin-k-shots-and-childhood-cancer?t=20) We have the three studies here. First, we have Golding and colleagues, a hundred and sixty-five percent higher odds of childhood leukemia and ninety-seven percent higher odds of all childhood cancers.

[0:32](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/lSCdtYp3qWzA/en/claims-about-newborn-vitamin-k-shots-and-childhood-cancer?t=32) Then we had Parker and colleagues with four thousand children.

[0:36](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/lSCdtYp3qWzA/en/claims-about-newborn-vitamin-k-shots-and-childhood-cancer?t=36) They reported seventy-f- nine percent higher odds of acute lymphoblastic leukemia diagnosed at ages one to six.

[0:46](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/lSCdtYp3qWzA/en/claims-about-newborn-vitamin-k-shots-and-childhood-cancer?t=46) Then we had Passmore and colleagues, over a thousand children.

[0:50](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/lSCdtYp3qWzA/en/claims-about-newborn-vitamin-k-shots-and-childhood-cancer?t=50) They found forty-four percent higher odds of childhood cancer when pooling all the cancers combined.

[0:58](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/lSCdtYp3qWzA/en/claims-about-newborn-vitamin-k-shots-and-childhood-cancer?t=58) Over ninety-three percent of American newborns receive the vitamin K shots, which can contain, above here you'll see, benzyl alcohol, polysorbate eighty, uh, propylene glycol, and even aluminum, um, all of which are toxic to humans.

[1:16](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/lSCdtYp3qWzA/en/claims-about-newborn-vitamin-k-shots-and-childhood-cancer?t=76) And the possible cancer mechanisms actually include genotoxic effects and chromosomal instability.

[1:24](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/lSCdtYp3qWzA/en/claims-about-newborn-vitamin-k-shots-and-childhood-cancer?t=84) There was an experimental study, um, vitamin K1 injected increased sister chromatid exchanges by thirty-six percent in fetal sheep within twenty-four hours of injection, with similar effects observed in cultured human cells.

[1:41](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/lSCdtYp3qWzA/en/claims-about-newborn-vitamin-k-shots-and-childhood-cancer?t=101) These exchanges actually indicate possibly altered DNA recombination or cellular stress, uh, possibly relevant to genomic instability.

[1:52](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/lSCdtYp3qWzA/en/claims-about-newborn-vitamin-k-shots-and-childhood-cancer?t=112) And strangely, new large-scale investigations into this possible cancer link appear to have stopped over twenty years ago, despite multiple studies we just went over, reporting statistically significant increases in childhood cancer odds.

[2:09](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/lSCdtYp3qWzA/en/claims-about-newborn-vitamin-k-shots-and-childhood-cancer?t=129) And all those studies were published in the nineties.

[2:12](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/lSCdtYp3qWzA/en/claims-about-newborn-vitamin-k-shots-and-childhood-cancer?t=132) There were a few more studies later. Some of them found no significant associations.

[2:18](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/lSCdtYp3qWzA/en/claims-about-newborn-vitamin-k-shots-and-childhood-cancer?t=138) Uh, but then again, we have a lot of them reporting significant associations.

[2:23](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/lSCdtYp3qWzA/en/claims-about-newborn-vitamin-k-shots-and-childhood-cancer?t=143) We have biological plausibility. So why did this investigation stop over twenty years ago?

[2:29](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/lSCdtYp3qWzA/en/claims-about-newborn-vitamin-k-shots-and-childhood-cancer?t=149) This is extremely serious. Over ninety-three percent of American children are injected with these shots.