- A personalised cancer vaccine made from individual patients' own DNA has produced "really hopeful" early results.
The jab, made using similar technology to Oxford-AstraZeneca's COVID vaccine, sees DNA from an individual patient's tumour and cut and pasted into a harmless virus, which is injected into the body to train the immune system to be alert for cancer ...
from: Sky News
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- Personalised cancer vaccine trials produce 'really hopeful' results
The ground-breaking jab, created using technology perfected in the COVID pandemic, is being given to patients after they complete conventional treatment for head and neck cancers. Patients have a high chance of the cancer returning.
from: 3FM
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- Insight into Cancer Vaccines
With the recent upsurge in virology and vaccine production due to the COVID-19 pandemic, medical professionals rely more on this new modus operandi. One prominent example is the use of “cancer vaccines,” a relatively new technology in the field of oncology ...
from: News-Medical.net
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- A dog cancer vaccine may save them — and, one day, us
The vaccine targets a tumor protein called vimentin, creating an immune response in dogs with bladder cancer that both fought cancer growth and helped mitigate tumors' ability to evade the immune system.
from: Big Think
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- A dog cancer vaccine may save them — and, one day, us
The vaccine targets a tumor protein called vimentin, creating an immune response in dogs with bladder cancer that both fought cancer growth and helped mitigate tumors' ability to evade the immune system.
from: Big Think
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