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Personalized cancer vaccines show genuine promise in specific
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This kind of tweet is both interesting and misleading. On the one hand, who doesn’t want a personalized vaccine that treats their cancer and reduces the need for chemo? On the other hand, there are many patients and families desperately looking for treatment. Presenting this as what cancer treatment looks like in 2026 is just not true: 1. Promising results in melanoma don’t mean personalized vaccines work across all cancers. 2. A treatment showing promise in a trial doesn’t mean most…
m_goes_distance@m_goes_distanceSep 7
cancer treatment in 2025: find the tumor, cut it out, poison the rest with chemo, hope the patient survives cancer treatment in 2026: sequence the tumor's DNA, identify the exact mutations driving it, design a treatment built around those mutations specifically, train the patient's own immune system to hunt them down it's coming fast, bio/acc.