Finally, a vaccine for one of the deadliest forms of cancer

Image credit: koto_feja / Getty Images. Article by Julia Pugachevsky. Insider – May 10, 2023.

• A small new study led by BioNTech used a customized pancreatic cancer vaccine on 16 patients.
• Half of the patients remained cancer-free after 18 months.
• Competitors like Moderna have also been developing personalized mRNA cancer vaccines.

A new vaccine designed to treat pancreatic cancer prevented the disease from returning in 50% of patients who received it, scientists reported today.

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