A personalized mRNA Vaccine provides ‘real hope’ for melanoma patients | The Optimist Daily
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Redefining cancer therapy: a closer look at the cutting-edge mRNA vaccine trials for melanoma.

I missed this before, but apparently we’re now nearly a year into Merck and Moderna’s Phase-3 trials of a novel mRNA vaccine (mRNA-4157) in combination with Keytruda to slow or halt aggressive melanoma growth. (press release), and about 4 months into a similar Phase 3 trial of the same drug combo for small cell lung cancer (press release). Here’s hoping that 2025 is the year we cure (some kinds of) cancer!

  • otp@sh.itjust.works
    402·
    3 days ago

    Conspiracy theorists in 2019: “Big Pharma is hiding the cure to cancer because they’d rather keep people on chemo”

    Conspiracy theorists in 2025: “The vaccine for cancer is actually worse than cancer”

    • takeda@lemm.eeEnglish
      11·
      3 days ago

      The difference this time is that this won’t be paid by the government like covid vaccine and in fact will be very expensive (i.e. how much people are willing to pay to cure their cancer?)

      How can you create such conspiracy, when they don’t even want to give that vaccine?

      I suspect if we were forced to pay $500 or more to get covid vaccine we wouldn’t have conspiracies either.

      • lud@lemm.ee
        14·
        3 days ago

        The difference this time is that this won’t be paid by the government like covid vaccine and in fact will be very expensive (i.e. how much people are willing to pay to cure their cancer?)

        In the USA.

      • AwkwardLookMonkeyPuppet@lemmy.worldEnglish
        11·
        3 days ago

        how much people are willing to pay to cure their cancer?)

        People are typically willing to pay everything they have to avoid dying and excruciating death.

      • interdimensionalmeme@lemmy.ml
        3·
        2 days ago

        Somewhere between the answer to the following two questions.

        How much is your life worth to you?

        And

        How much is your life worth to your community.