02-21-2025, 03:09 PM
This post was last modified 02-21-2025, 09:24 PM by Maxmars. Edited 2 times in total.
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Encouraging news regarding a patient who reportedly appears to have "beaten" pancreatic cancer.
From Fox: Experimental vaccine for common cancer shows potential in clinical trial
The magazine is retell of an article from Nature: RNA neoantigen vaccines prime long-lived CD8+ T cells in pancreatic cancer
Of course, making tabloid declarations of a distinctly non-vaccine-like technology which is mRNA-based, might be premature in Phase 1... but I have no doubt this will be massaged into something to get those investment dollars flowing. Look for it on the marketweb... under "Cure for cancer!" (I notice they are still trying to call mRNA tech a "vaccine" rather than a direct recoding of DNA-based life processes.)
Ultimately, there is statistical evidence that the treatment offered did create an outcome where the body's own immune system began to recognize the cancer and deal with it as any other such element within the body. That's sounds good... I think.
While I don't recommend hooking all our hopes onto any single wagon... it's potentially good news... who knows? Maybe they've actually found something to help... rather than some multi-year Bandaid treatment course that only drains the wealth from the patient, and leaves them exactly as they are... sick and in need.
Oooh... that last sounded cynical, no? Apologies...
[edit to fix title... thanks Byrd!]
From Fox: Experimental vaccine for common cancer shows potential in clinical trial
The magazine is retell of an article from Nature: RNA neoantigen vaccines prime long-lived CD8+ T cells in pancreatic cancer
Of course, making tabloid declarations of a distinctly non-vaccine-like technology which is mRNA-based, might be premature in Phase 1... but I have no doubt this will be massaged into something to get those investment dollars flowing. Look for it on the marketweb... under "Cure for cancer!" (I notice they are still trying to call mRNA tech a "vaccine" rather than a direct recoding of DNA-based life processes.)
Ultimately, there is statistical evidence that the treatment offered did create an outcome where the body's own immune system began to recognize the cancer and deal with it as any other such element within the body. That's sounds good... I think.
While I don't recommend hooking all our hopes onto any single wagon... it's potentially good news... who knows? Maybe they've actually found something to help... rather than some multi-year Bandaid treatment course that only drains the wealth from the patient, and leaves them exactly as they are... sick and in need.
Oooh... that last sounded cynical, no? Apologies...
[edit to fix title... thanks Byrd!]
