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[–] BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 9 points 4 hours ago

Too bad we got a Sociopathic Oligarchs as HSS, who thinks mRNA vaccines should be banned. Cancer is better than...well, whatever is wrong with mRNA vaccines.

[–] LovableSidekick@lemmy.world 31 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago)

It has the potential to do away with chemotherapy, surgery and radiation treatment.

I read that as: Will never reach the market because it threatens a multibillion dollar industry.

But srsly, glioblastoma is a really nasty motherfucker with a very low patient survival rate, so if they've really managed to cure it that's a huge milestone.

[–] frenchfryenjoyer@lemmings.world 14 points 7 hours ago

amazing. i can already hear the anti vax crowd seething lol

[–] catty@lemmy.world 8 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

Any cancer? How does this work with people who have gene mutations that suppress cancer-fighting defence systems.

[–] InnerScientist@lemmy.world 3 points 6 hours ago

E X T E R M I N A T E^/s^

[–] PlantDadManGuy@lemmy.world 10 points 7 hours ago

Conservatives will somehow find a way to level this as devil worshiping blasphemy and let their children die of brain cancer instead.

[–] LMurch@thelemmy.club 6 points 7 hours ago
[–] vga@sopuli.xyz 20 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago)

I'm gonna be watching with popcorn when anti-vaxxers get cancer and definitely 100% will take this vaccine.

I mean, if it's true and not just shit science reporting that I assume it is.

[–] WorldsDumbestMan@lemmy.today 17 points 12 hours ago (3 children)
[–] rothaine@lemmy.zip 14 points 8 hours ago

We'll find out in 30 years

[–] AngryRobot@lemmy.world 10 points 8 hours ago

It causes cancer.

[–] MashedTech@lemmy.world 3 points 10 hours ago (1 children)
[–] WorldsDumbestMan@lemmy.today 7 points 9 hours ago (2 children)

Besides that, I assume it comes at the cost of...unintended consequences for the body

[–] Zetta@mander.xyz 8 points 7 hours ago

As all medicines do, we still take medicine because it's good for us in most situations when needed.

[–] alucard@sopuli.xyz 3 points 7 hours ago

The ol’ cure the disease by killing the patient technique. Classic

[–] potato_wallrus@lemmy.world 8 points 11 hours ago

CIA hitmen:

[–] mechoman444@lemmy.world 47 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

Rfk is about to wake up and fire everyone doing this research.

[–] LovableSidekick@lemmy.world 6 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago)

When we say "healthcare" we mean caring for the health of healthcare corporations.

[–] SlartyBartFast@sh.itjust.works 4 points 10 hours ago

"It's not a tumor!!!!"

[–] iturnedintoanewt@lemmy.world 41 points 16 hours ago (7 children)

Previous research has focused more on homing in on a target or tailoring a vaccine specific to a patient's own cancer profile.

"This study suggests a third emerging paradigm," said study co-author Duane Mitchell, MD. "What we found is by using a vaccine designed not to target cancer specifically but rather to stimulate a strong immunologic response, we could elicit a very strong anticancer reaction. And so this has significant potential to be broadly used across cancer patients – even possibly leading us to an off-the-shelf cancer vaccine."

So... Kinda triggering your own auto-inmune response. But I'd be wary of trouble with overtly aggressive auto-inmune responses, as we already have quite a few diseases coming from these, as well.

[–] Taleya@aussie.zone 1 points 4 hours ago

Yeah i've had RA since i was 12, that explaination of function just made my brain screech

[–] eletes@sh.itjust.works 15 points 13 hours ago (3 children)

I guess if I was gonna die and absolutely wanted more time I would make the trade off for living with lupus

[–] Tattorack@lemmy.world 1 points 4 hours ago

It's never lupus.

[–] jaennaet@sopuli.xyz 9 points 12 hours ago

As someone with an autoimmune disorder, I'm honestly not all that sold on whether that's a good tradeoff.

Yay, you're not acutely dying of cancer, but now your body is attacking your internal organs and depending on how shitty your luck is, you can eg. look forward to liver and/or kidney transplants (possibly more than once, too)

[–] ivanafterall@lemmy.world 11 points 13 hours ago

living with lupus

[–] kinther@lemmy.world 4 points 12 hours ago

Multiple Sclerosis comes to mind

[–] OptimisticPessimist@lemmy.world 3 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago)

Immune checkpoint inhibitors are already a relatively common therapy for several types of cancer.

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