The extraordinary promise of personalised cancer vaccines – podcast

Glioblastomas are an extremely aggressive type of brain tumour, which is why the news this week of a vaccine that has shown promise in fighting them is so exciting.And this comes right off the back of the announcement of another trial of the world ’s first personalisedmRNA vaccine for melanoma, a kind of skin cancer. Ian Sample talks to Prof Alan Melcher of the Institute of Cancer Research about how these vaccines work and whether they could one day be used to target cancer before it is even detectable on scansClips: BBCRead more about the personalised cancer vaccine for melanomaContinue reading...

Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - May 2, 2024 Category: Science Authors: Presented by Ian Sample, produced by Madeleine Finlay, sound design by Tony Onuchukwu, the executive producer was Ellie Bury Tags: Science Cancer research Skin cancer Medical research Society Vaccines and immunisation Health Source Type: news