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The world's first ovarian cancer vaccine could wipe the disease out, researchers have said.

OvarianVax is a vaccine that teaches the immune system to recognise and attack the earliest stages of ovarian cancer.

It's being developed by scientists at the University of Oxford.

The hope is that women could receive the jab preventatively on the NHS with the goal of eradicating the disease.

Experts have suggested it could work in a similar way to the human papillomavirus (HPV) jab, which is on track to stamp out cervical cancer.

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[–] wildcardology@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Anti-vaxxers: hold my beer.

[–] phoenixz@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Well, this is cancer and not some virus so at least they'll only slowly kill themselves after suffering, if they were to have to deal with this. It's not great, but silver linings, I guess?

[–] jaggedrobotpubes@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

It actually completely reverses the dynamic. Anti-vaxxers are bioterrorists because most stuff you vaccinate against is contagious. It's assaulting a public health superstructure that everybody relies on.

But when they only kill themselves? 🍺🍺

Only leftover awful thing is doing it to their poor kids. Still every bit as evil, just with a massive reduction in scope.

Far, far more than a silver lining.

[–] wildcardology@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

They're calling it a vaccine. We all know what anti-vaxxers will do when they hear the words vaccines.