There is never going to be a “cancer vaccine”. Cancer isn’t a single disease, it is more like a whole category. It is like claiming you are going to develop a vaccine against any and all respiratory diseases or against all kinds of heart problems.
Cuba has vaccines for different cancers already
It’s plural in the story
Yes, but it is also not going to be a whole set of vaccines against all kinds of cancers developed in secret and finished and released at the exact same time. That just doesn’t make sense for a real set of vaccines, just for one that is invented for propaganda purposes.
The article says “for individual therapy”, so Russia is likely working on the same personalized “vaccines” that other researchers have been working on for quite some time - ones that utilize the individual patient’s immune system to attack the specific cancer. Not something that everyone would go out and get immunized against. This isn’t mind-blowing, but if you were Putin wouldn’t you want to put it some positive news right now too?
That’s not the way science is done. The researchers need input before they submit for publication as well, and they need to publicise the trial to recruit participants.
Also to drum up funding. Lotta vaccine research labs do outreach to keep people informed/hyped up about their research which brings in donor money and grants.
That too, to develop anything actually usable with a confidence that it works you would need fairly large trials.
I think you misread the story. It says
“we have come very close to the creation of so-called cancer vaccines and immunomodulatory drugs of a new generation. I hope that soon they will be effectively used as methods of individual therapy”
I think you misread it as “we will create comprehensive, all-purpose oncovaccines”, when in fact it just says “we will create oncovaccines”, which is pretty likely given that it’s 2024 now. To use your analogy, it’s like saying they’re close to creating some vaccines for some respiratory viruses, which is plausible.
I don’t get why you say, “any and all… all kinds of cancers developed in secret and finished and released at the exact same time.” There is nothing like that in the story – besides which, it just doesn’t make sense for a real set of vaccines.
I also don’t understand why you said they’d be “developed in secret”, as there’s no reason to think that and it doesn’t make sense.
Putin says a lot of crazy shit
Cancer vaccines are already a thing lmao it’s not that unusual
For Russia? IDK, seems a little unusual, they’re not exactly on the cutting edge of medicine. Also, any claim Putin makes should probably be treated with extreme skepticism.
Cuba has head them for atleast a decade, I think more then that
Isn’t Cuba kinda famous for being on the cutting edge of medicine (at least in some regards) despite stuff like embargoes?
I wonder if mRNA vaccine treatment for cancer is what they are referencing.
From what I was able to understand (and maybe somebody can correct anything I’ve gotten wrong), the “vaccine” is tailored on a per-individual basis to target key protein markers of a petients particular cancer. This allows the body to identify and start to attack the cancer where previously the immune system would not be able to tell the difference between healthy and cancerous cells.
Ref: https://www.cancer.gov/news-events/cancer-currents-blog/2022/mrna-vaccines-to-treat-cancer
does it involve falling out of a window
Cool
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story, bro
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Is a cancer vaccine even possible as a concept? Would it even be classified as a vaccine since cancer isn’t a virus?
Obviously creating preventative measures for cancer would be amazing but I figured that wasn’t even a subject we were broaching since treating it is hard enough
It’s totally possible and it already exists. You train your immune system (that’s the complicated part, you have to feed it some part of cancer cells and make it understan that’s the bad guys. Which is very complicated) to fight the cancerous cells.
Let’s not firget there are around 300 families of cancer and there isn’t any vaccine against all of them obviously.
That said, from russia it is obvious bs.
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Umm excuse me? Why was my comment removed about me rather dying then get injected from a terrorist country that loves killing people by injecting crap into them, or lying about everything they do to make themselves look good.
Maybe the removal didn’t sync, but it’s visible here
Feddit de once again reminding everyone that germany never underwent denazification. God that instance needs to piss off so badly.
A.d you know that Russia is just lying
lmfao
