Every cancer is different. Because of that, researchers have for decades been working on personalised cancer vaccines designed to make the immune system recognise and attack cancers specific to each individual. The results have been mixed, but now a personalised cancer vaccine has produced positive results in a final-stage trial for the first time.
Moderna announced on 19 August that people who had undergone surgery to remove severe skin cancers, called melanomas, survived longer without the cancer returning or spreading to other parts of the body if they were given a personalised mRNA cancer vaccine in conjunction with another immunotherapy, compared with receiving that immunotherapy alone…
Source: NewScientist | Health
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