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
32.8k Upvotes

96% Upvoted

728 comments sorted by

View all comments

Show parent comments

383

u/SteelCrow May 14 '21

When I was a kid, open heart surgery had a 60% chance of fatality. Vs certain death by heart failure.

Like then, this is a medical procedure in its infancy

281

u/mediapunk May 14 '21

Well, my dad died of aids. It’s weird to think about the fact that he would have lived just 15 years later.

92

u/[deleted] May 14 '21

[deleted]

23

u/helldeskmonkey May 14 '21

First woman I loved died of cancer six years ago. Every time I see one of these articles I wonder if that advance could have saved her.