Moderna’s mRNA cancer vaccine works even better than thought

The vaccine works by instructing the body to make up to 34 “neoantigens.” These are proteins found only on the cancer cells, and Moderna personalizes the vaccine for each recipient so that it carries instructions for the neoantigens on their cancer cells.

That’s pretty dope

Time for the antivax doomsday cult to extol the virtues of cancer.

This is amazing news for countries with free healthcare! Even though the vaccine is expensive, it's nowhere as expensive as the care a cancer patient needs today.

Plus you can send a healthy individual back to their families and into society again.

“We think that in some countries the product could be launched under accelerated approval by 2025.”

Thats literally next year. That's amazing.

Can't wait to see what other uses we can find for mRNA

Fuck cancer, this sounds great!

You know what this sounds like to me?

Like Moderna is gonna ask $10k a poke.

Edit: ITT: Pharma bros telling me how awesome artificially-inflated medication prices are.

LOL I just remembered that some folks in the anti-covid-vax/maga category have been referring to the mRNA covid vaccines as 'the cancer vaccines' based on disinformation that they would 'interact with your genes' and 'give you cancer in 2 years'

Seeing this headline [Moderna’s mRNA cancer vaccine works even better than thought] I had to look to see if it was the cancer-targeting vaccine or some mouth-breathers talking about the covid ones 😅

cue antivaxxers' pro-plague and pro-death screeching 🤦‍♂️

I wonder if my mom will accept this vaccine for her cancer after years of believing all the conspiracy theories about the COVID vaccine. I’m willing to bet that if she has the opportunity, she’ll jump on it.

Can't wait for it to be specifically priced for only the 1% to be able to afford. Just like all the other cancer drugs that work.

I never once thought about it before but how do they select a target antigen for what is effectively a human cell? Maybe they could take a similar approach to Rabies or Prion Disease.

what's really cool is this plus telomerase will give us a youth serum

I hope so much that this isn't a predecessor to this.

Uhh ohh, better raise the price then.

The article doesn't go into much in the way of details, so I can't begin to say how it might extend into the treatment of other cancers, but it does make it clear that this treatment is specifically for melanoma only. Which is great--it's a deadly cancer. But without more information, we shouldn't get too excited about this being able to treat other types of cancer.

IDK, after that I took two doses of Pfizer vaccine (which is a mRNA vaccine) I started to show some heart issues that I never had in my life. I'm even seeing a cardiologist. I'm not trying to be anti-vaccine but I admit that after that I am afraid of mRNA vaccines.

This will save a lot of lives in Australia and NZ. Melanoma is our bi-national cancer. Thanks, CFCs!

I got a ping off anxiety thinking about 'One Chance' the game where the end of the world was caused by exactly this, more specifically the end of all life.

Ok… hooray?

I've heard this one before...

During the little flu virus, whenever there would occur a yet new bunch of deaths due to hear attack, many newspapers would claim "You've seen this? And this proves that our magical Vxx works!". Yes, it does. However, it depends on what you mean by "works", for whom and for what goal. The same in this case.