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Pancreatic Cancer Vaccine Triggers Immune Response Before Tumors Develop (www.insideprecisionmedicine.com)
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[–] 15 points 3 months ago (1 child)

You should read the article.

Pancreatic cancer forms on and is generally preceded by a series of pancreatic lesions, and the participants were only people with a history of medically concerning pancreatic lesions and a genetic predisposition to pancreatic cancer.

It’s also a cure- that was how it was (so far successfully) first tested, and they’re only now testing it as a vaccine.

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  • [+] -7 points 3 months ago*

    This seems less like a vaccine for pancreatic cancer and more like a vaccine for the cause of pancreatic cancer, like HPV's relationship with cervical cancer. A subtle, but important difference, as that's less experimental than "a vaccine for cancer".

    Although, targeting precancerous lesions that were created by their own body is still rather more experimental than targeting a completely foreign virus.

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