Cancer vaccines by the end of 2030?

[Kyng]

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2022...h-founders

Vaccines that target cancer could be available before the end of the decade, according to the husband and wife team behind one of the most successful Covid vaccines of the pandemic.

Uğur Şahin and Özlem Türeci, who co-founded BioNTech, the German firm that partnered with Pfizer to manufacture a revolutionary mRNA Covid vaccine, said they had made breakthroughs that fuelled their optimism for cancer vaccines in the coming years.

Speaking on the BBC’s Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg, Prof Türeci described how the mRNA technology at the heart of BioNTech’s Covid vaccine could be repurposed so that it primed the immune system to attack cancer cells instead of invading coronaviruses.

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Wow, that does sound very bold . We all know just how horrible cancer is - and I'll certainly welcome anything that can protect us against it.

Of course, it's a very ambitious goal, but if they achieve it, then it'll go down as one of the great milestones in medical history.

[Shiny Star]

This would be amazing. I think it’s a possibility to make something like this, although I can imagine that it won’t be too effective at first. Immunotherapy exists, which is where the body attempts to use the immune system to attack cancer cells. However, at present, more people have no response to it than do. Still helps some.

Saying that, there’s the HPV vaccine that helps reduce the risk of getting cervixal cancer. Perhaps there will be more stuff like that, but I guess that counts on observing aetiology and what causes cancer.

[Kyng]

As an update to this, a vaccine has been shown to prolong the lives of people with aggressive brain tumours:

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2022...ioblastoma

This is great news . Let's hope it reaches mainstream availability sooner rather than later!

[Shiny Star]

Brain tumours are very aggressive so that’s amazing. Steps in the right direction.

[Tiger Eyes]

This is truly amazing news! Both of my parents battled cancer at some point. So have my niece, uncle, and aunt.  My uncle died from his.

[Kyng]

This is truly amazing news! Both of my parents battled cancer at some point. So have my niece, uncle, and aunt.  My uncle died from his.

Sorry to hear about your family's battles with cancer - and especially your uncle's .

Just goes to show what a horrible family of diseases we're dealing with - and the more weapons we have against it, the better.

[SpookyZalost]

Hah! this is what I've been talking about for YEARS!!!!

FINALLY!!!.

Look cancer is caused by an error in the replication algorithm in DNA that effectively breaks the shutdown mechanism.

So the cells continue to replicate endlessly.

Simply put you patch the code you cure cancer, any cancerous cells automatically die because they realize they're in error.  it's a natural already existing mechanism that's disabled when cells are behaving as cancer.

the problem is that to do it broadly would be expensive since you'd have to tailor each treatment to the individual... but it sounds like they've begun to locate a general cancer gene sequence... this means they could target just that, treat it, and cure the vast majority of cancers which is fantastic news!

[Kyng]

Hah! this is what I've been talking about for YEARS!!!!

FINALLY!!!.

Look cancer is caused by an error in the replication algorithm in DNA that effectively breaks the shutdown mechanism.

So the cells continue to replicate endlessly.

Simply put you patch the code you cure cancer, any cancerous cells automatically die because they realize they're in error.  it's a natural already existing mechanism that's disabled when cells are behaving as cancer.

the problem is that to do it broadly would be expensive since you'd have to tailor each treatment to the individual... but it sounds like they've begun to locate a general cancer gene sequence... this means they could target just that, treat it, and cure the vast majority of cancers which is fantastic news!

Indeed - I remember when I was at university, that was spoken about in one of the lectures I had. That was a decade ago now - but back then, it was presented as this far-off thing that might hopefully be viable one day.

Of course, it's great that they've found another route that's more practical than that one!

[SpookyZalost]

Hah! this is what I've been talking about for YEARS!!!!

FINALLY!!!.

Look cancer is caused by an error in the replication algorithm in DNA that effectively breaks the shutdown mechanism.

So the cells continue to replicate endlessly.

Simply put you patch the code you cure cancer, any cancerous cells automatically die because they realize they're in error.  it's a natural already existing mechanism that's disabled when cells are behaving as cancer.

the problem is that to do it broadly would be expensive since you'd have to tailor each treatment to the individual... but it sounds like they've begun to locate a general cancer gene sequence... this means they could target just that, treat it, and cure the vast majority of cancers which is fantastic news!

Indeed - I remember when I was at university, that was spoken about in one of the lectures I had. That was a decade ago now - but back then, it was presented as this far-off thing that might hopefully be viable one day.

Of course, it's great that they've found another route that's more practical than that one!

well yeah, if they can patch DNA to fix serious genetic errors that's amazing.  one big thing I'm hoping for is a T-cell patch.  Because I'd love it if my allergies no longer existed lol.

[Tiger Eyes]

This is truly amazing news! Both of my parents battled cancer at some point. So have my niece, uncle, and aunt.  My uncle died from his.

Sorry to hear about your family's battles with cancer - and especially your uncle's .

Just goes to show what a horrible family of diseases we're dealing with - and the more weapons we have against it, the better.

Thank you, CJ. My mom lost part of one of her lungs due to the cancer. She now has to be screened every year to make sure it doesn't return.