New vaccine to treat 15 types of cancer now available on NHS

Boy did I pick the wrong time to specialise in oncology.

If it basically trains the immune system to recognise cancerous cells as a pathogen, and train T-cells to kill them where programmed cell death has failed, then if those cells can eradicate all cancer cells, that sounds potentially like a cure for cancer?

If this stuff goes in the direction its promising to this is just the start, modern vaccine design has moved to targeting the common parts of entire families of diseases that are highly conserved and therefore cannot mutate without killing the disease.

I’m aware of another one like this in trials that if it works out would protect against most colds, flus and covids by hitting the common machinery they all share. And we are entering a new era in terms of research speed too, so this could start moving rapidly.

This thread is just ace. I have absolutely no current ‘vested interest’ but to see this kind of development and people taking about it like adults is so refreshing. In a world full of loopy anti-vaxxer conspiracy nonsense this feels like a positive insight to the promising bits of human scientific/medical progress.