safely fight and kill tumors in early human trials
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- With swift shots to the arm, doctors safely and effectively prime our immune systems to fight off deadly infectious diseases. Now, with tightly crossed fingers, they plan to do the same for cancers.
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In two early clinical trials involving 19 patients with skin cancer, personalized vaccines appeared safe and effective at spurring immune responses to attack and destroy tumors. The vaccines worked by coaching killer immune cells—T cells—to destroy tumors by seeking out uniquely mutated proteins on each patient's one-of-a-kind cancer cells, while leaving healthy cells unharmed.
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The results of the two trials, both published this week in Nature, follow years of basic research and animal studies on this strategy. Researchers are optimistic, but there are big hurdles ahead of these small trials, including bigger trials with more patients and controls. If those go well, researchers will likely have to figure out how to streamline creating vaccines for individual patients, which is currently tedious and expensive.
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“The two studies confirm the potential of this type of approach,” Cornelis Melief, a cancer immunologist at Leiden University Medical Centre in the Netherlands, wrote in an accompanying commentary. “Controlled, randomized phase II clinical trials with more participants are now needed to establish the efficacy of these vaccines in patients with any type of cancer.”
Really liked your post I always feel if there is hope go for it, this was very informing thanks.
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you're welcome.
the future is so bright that I need sunglasses.
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This guys are heroes
they are pushing forward so our chance to survive this disease rises.
Everyday our body is fighting against DNA mutations
Boosting our imunsystem is the way to go
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Many people would give anything for that. Congratulations on the article. It is due to hope!
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Thats a pretty cool medical advancement. preparing customised vaccines that wil match individual's pecularity will be damn expensive like buying a customised car or a limited edition. Kind of a luxury
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surviving cancer...yeah..that's a luxury all right.
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Wow! Wouldn't this be wonderful?
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Wow!! What a super medical enhancement when we can actually cure cancer for good 😁
In that line - years ago people used to die from the common cold - if that had to happen now we'd be majorly surprised!! Hopefully that will be the case for cancer in the years to come...
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cancer is not just ONE disease..it's a bunchaton of them. That's one reason that finding a cure is so hard.
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Wow, never thought of it like that 😳
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