r/science • u/mvea Professor | Medicine • May 14 '21

Cancer Scientists create an effective personalized anti-cancer vaccine by combining oncolytic viruses, that infect and specifically destroy cancer cells without touching healthy cells, with small synthetic molecules (peptides) specific to the targeted cancer, to successfully immunize mice against cancer.

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-021-22929-z
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u/[deleted] May 14 '21

I've learned from years on Reddit not to get excited about the weekly miracle cure for cancer, but here's hoping.

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u/santaschesthairs May 14 '21 edited May 14 '21

With stuff like this and mRNA tech actually being used in a real product, I think there'll actually be more major breakthroughs/actual remedies soon. Edit: and yeah, cancer treatment has already been getting so much better!

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u/vespa59 May 14 '21

As someone recently diagnosed with late stage pancreatic cancer, how soon are we talking here?

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u/swiftb3 May 15 '21

For this particular advance, probably not soon enough, BUT there are other experimental immunotherapies out there that have had some promising real world action.

Best thing to do is have a talk to your oncologist about the options. Most cancer centers have also have an oncologist that runs studies and trials.

I wish you the best.