Scientists have made a cancer vaccine breakthrough after manufacturers behind the Pfizer Covid jab used the same technology to stop the disease returning.
The vaccine, custom-made for each patient, can trigger the immune system to attack tumour cells and successfully keep the disease at bay.
Experts behind the Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 jab teamed up with doctors in New York to develop the vaccine for pancreatic cancer patients.
The phase I results of its clinical trial, the first of its kind, were presented this weekend at the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO)’s annual conference in Chicago.
It is hoped the findings could herald a new era of treatment for other hard-to-treat cancers, as pancreatic cancer is often known as the “poster child” for such deadly tumours.
Around 10,500 new cases of pancreatic cancer are diagnosed every year in the UK, but just a quarter of patients survive for a year or more.
Researchers said these latest findings could pave the way for the technology to be used on other cancers.
Announcing a “war on cancer” earlier this year, Sajid Javid, the Health Secretary, pledged to invest in innovative treatments such as cancer vaccines.
This new research raises hopes such vaccines could become available on the NHS in the next decade, under the Government’s 10-year cancer plan.
Dr Vinod Balachandran, the principal investigator, of the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, said: “Unlike some of the other immunotherapies, these mRNA vaccines do appear to have the ability to stimulate immune responses in pancreatic cancer patients.
“So we’re very excited about that, and the early results that suggest that if you have an immune response you may have a better outcome.”
Alternativ headline: Turks cure ass-cancer
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Scientists have made a cancer vaccine breakthrough after manufacturers behind the Pfizer Covid jab used the same technology to stop the disease returning.
The vaccine, custom-made for each patient, can trigger the immune system to attack tumour cells and successfully keep the disease at bay.
Experts behind the Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 jab teamed up with doctors in New York to develop the vaccine for pancreatic cancer patients.
The phase I results of its clinical trial, the first of its kind, were presented this weekend at the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO)’s annual conference in Chicago.
It is hoped the findings could herald a new era of treatment for other hard-to-treat cancers, as pancreatic cancer is often known as the “poster child” for such deadly tumours.
Around 10,500 new cases of pancreatic cancer are diagnosed every year in the UK, but just a quarter of patients survive for a year or more.
Researchers said these latest findings could pave the way for the technology to be used on other cancers.
Announcing a “war on cancer” earlier this year, Sajid Javid, the Health Secretary, pledged to invest in innovative treatments such as cancer vaccines.
This new research raises hopes such vaccines could become available on the NHS in the next decade, under the Government’s 10-year cancer plan.
Dr Vinod Balachandran, the principal investigator, of the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, said: “Unlike some of the other immunotherapies, these mRNA vaccines do appear to have the ability to stimulate immune responses in pancreatic cancer patients.
“So we’re very excited about that, and the early results that suggest that if you have an immune response you may have a better outcome.”
Alternativ headline: Turks cure ass-cancer
That’s good for Mainz coin
I like them even more now 🙂
These two and the cats in İstanbul are literally the only positive PR we will ever have in the near future and I will take it