Study: The first vaccine against cancer turns out to be effective

2022-08-11 21:03:25Lifestyle SHKRUAR NGA REDAKSIA VOX
Study: The first vaccine against cancer turns out to be effective
The first vaccine against cancer turns out to be effective

Scientists are testing a cancer vaccine that uses a virus such as a "Trojan horse" to instruct the immune system to recognize cancer cells. It then activates the immune response against the tumor and can improve the effectiveness of immunotherapy drugs.

This is the discovery of Armenise-Harvard researchers at the Italian Institute of Genomic Medicine. Tgcom24 write that the discovery was explained in a study published in the journal "Science Translational Medicine" and was carried out in collaboration with the Swiss-Italian biotechnology "Nouscom".

The vaccine is said to be effective. It was tested in 12 patients with a subtype of metastatic colon cancer.

"Considering that the technique for producing these vaccines has been rigorously tested and that the data obtained in the first clinical trial are very promising, there is a real possibility of creating new vaccines effective against many other types of cancer." - said Luigia Pace, director of the Armenian-Harvard Laboratory of Immunoregulation.


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