There will be vaccines to treat breast and lung cancer

06/28/2023 07:14

There are now many types of vaccines to prevent cancer, such as the hepatitis B vaccine to prevent liver cancer and the HPV vaccine to prevent cervical cancer.

Patient Kathleen Jade receives the third dose of an experimental breast cancer vaccine at the University of Washington - Montlake Medical Center in Seattle (USA), May 30. Photo: AP

However, the US National Cancer Institute said that scientists have reached a major turning point and these are not traditional vaccines that prevent disease, the injection will not prevent cancer, but will shrink tumors and prevent cancer from returning.

This mRNA therapeutic vaccine was first created by the pharmaceutical company Moderna to treat cancer, but was later used to roll out a Covid-19 vaccine at the height of the pandemic.

Moderna's chief medical officer, Dr. Paul Burton, said the approach of developing a "personalized" therapeutic vaccine to target different tumor types, this time breast and lung cancer, would be highly effective with the potential to save "hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of lives as soon as 2030."

Source: https://www.sggp.org.vn/se-co-vaccine-dieu-tri-ung-thu-vu-va-ung-thu-phoi-post695290.html