mRNA vaccine stops pancreatic cancer, study finds

The key to these vaccines appears to be proteins in the pancreatic tumors, called neoantigens, which keep the cancer at bay.

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In 8 of 16 patients studied, the vaccines activated T cells that recognize the patient’s own pancreatic cancers. These patients also showed delayed recurrence of their pancreatic cancers, suggesting the T cells activated by the vaccines may be having the desired effect to keep pancreatic cancers in check.

Good news, but the headline lacks nuance.
- Blatant skepticism replaced with cautious optimism
  
  Same, this big catchy over optimistic and click bait headlines make me automatically really suspicious of the claims. Great news if the second trial goes well
- Yes, 16 people is not relevant enough for anything.
mRNA? Oh boy the anti vaxxers are going have have their heads explode.

Great news though as that's a pretty common cancer.
- Great news as it's a cancer woth a really low survival rate
mRNA is going to go down in history as the most important medical breakthrough ever. It seems to not have limits
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- Not all of them, but the most successful from Biontech/Pfizer and moderna are both mRNA based. However there were also others based on protein subunits or viral vectors for example.
  
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- Yes, mRNA was a huge breakthrough developed by the massive r&d rush from covid vaccine funding. Now we reap it's benefits as it has a huge amount of applications on a lot of other things too.
- Indeed they were.

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