• frezik@midwest.social
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    1 year ago

    There are some promising efforts for vaccines against cancer. It’s teaching your immune system to kill cells that were supposed to die on their own. It’s a relatively recent development, though.

    Plus, as should always be stated with cancer treatments, there is no singular “cancer”. It’s a class of related problems that need to be handled individually. Vaccine against prostate cancer shouldn’t be expected to work against breast cancer. Anything that claims to cure cancer in a blanket way should be treated with great suspicion.

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      1 year ago

      The mrna vaccines that allowed us to quickly target covid were under development for targeting cancers. We all got super lucky to be honest.

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      I mean also isn’t the hpv vaccine kinda functionally a cancer vaccine