I mean also isn’t the hpv vaccine kinda functionally a cancer vaccine
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frezik@midwest.social 10 months agoThere are some promising efforts for vaccines against cancer. It’s teaching your immune system to kill cells that were supposed to die on their own. It’s a relatively recent development, though.
Plus, as should always be stated with cancer treatments, there is no singular “cancer”. It’s a class of related problems that need to be handled individually. Vaccine against prostate cancer shouldn’t be expected to work against breast cancer. Anything that claims to cure cancer in a blanket way should be treated with great suspicion.
Kimano@lemmy.world 10 months ago
ph00p@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Oh boy, that could also go horribly wrong too, what if a cell is a little bit retarded in it’s growth for some reason but would develop into a useful cell but, NOPE body killed it.
frezik@midwest.social 10 months ago
It could, but it’s also improving on something your immune system already does. Out of all the trillions of cells undergoing division in your body all the time, a few of them go cancerous each and every day. Your immune system almost always takes them out. It’s the one time out of a bajilion that things go wrong.
legion02@lemmy.world 10 months ago
The mrna vaccines that allowed us to quickly target covid were under development for targeting cancers. We all got super lucky to be honest.