https://news.sky.com/story/groundbreakin...d-13099391
Researchers are seeking to create the world's first vaccine to prevent lung cancer in people who are at high risk of the disease.
Scientists from the University of Oxford, the Francis Crick Institute and University College London (UCL) have used technology similar to the Oxford-AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine to create the "LungVax," a vaccine which activates the immune system to kill cancer cells and stop lung cancer.
The team has been granted up to £1.7m in funding by charities, Cancer Research UK and the CRIS Cancer Foundation, to manufacture 3,000 doses of the vaccine.
It works by using a strand of DNA which trains the immune system to recognise "red flag" proteins in lung cancer cells - known as neoantigens - and kill them.
Wow . Since I lost my grandad to lung cancer (and he didn't show any symptoms until a few days before he died), I'll be glad to see more effective treatments against it!
Let's hope this becomes available sooner rather than later .
Researchers are seeking to create the world's first vaccine to prevent lung cancer in people who are at high risk of the disease.
Scientists from the University of Oxford, the Francis Crick Institute and University College London (UCL) have used technology similar to the Oxford-AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine to create the "LungVax," a vaccine which activates the immune system to kill cancer cells and stop lung cancer.
The team has been granted up to £1.7m in funding by charities, Cancer Research UK and the CRIS Cancer Foundation, to manufacture 3,000 doses of the vaccine.
It works by using a strand of DNA which trains the immune system to recognise "red flag" proteins in lung cancer cells - known as neoantigens - and kill them.
Wow . Since I lost my grandad to lung cancer (and he didn't show any symptoms until a few days before he died), I'll be glad to see more effective treatments against it!
Let's hope this becomes available sooner rather than later .
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