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Personalized mRNA vaccines for melanoma and lung cancer (www.optimistdaily.com)

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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!

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[–] Anticorp@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

It's very different than a traditional vaccine.