I had to do in patient chemo for like 6 months. Every admission the nurse would ask about the flu vaccine. The goal of chemo was to destroy my immune system every 3 weeks, so that it would get all the lymphoma. So I would always ask how it would be effective if they were also killing off all my white blood cells. If they actually did guess the right flu strain (never happens), that immunity would get nuked on the steady. So no benefit at all, but the risk of dangerous adjuvants going into my blood stream. None of them every tried to explain, in any theory at all, how this might work. But I did get a ton of acknowledgements that my immune system was dealing with plenty at the moment, and most would not take the flu shot if it was not required for them to do so.
I had to do in patient chemo for like 6 months. Every admission the nurse would ask about the flu vaccine. The goal of chemo was to destroy my immune system every 3 weeks, so that it would get all the lymphoma. So I would always ask how it would be effective if they were also killing off all my white blood cells. If they actually did guess the right flu strain (never happens), that immunity would get nuked on the steady. So no benefit at all, but the risk of dangerous adjuvants going into my blood stream. None of them every tried to explain, in any theory at all, how this might work. But I did get a ton of acknowledgements that my immune system was dealing with plenty at the moment, and most would not take the flu shot if it was not required for them to do so.