mRNA vaccine technology applied to pancreatic cancer: preliminary data is VERY encouraging

[sglowrider]

One of the exciting things about mRNA vaccines is its relative simplicity and potential applications to other diseases, even outside of the realm of infectious diseases. Such as priming your immune system to better attack and eliminate tumors.

BioNTech, the co-inventor of the "Pfizer vaccine", just reported some very exciting data on pancreatic cancer, one of the very hardest-to-successfully-treat cancers that exists.

This blog report gives an accessible summary of the results and links to the study. Caveat: ONLY 16 patients, and 50% protection from disease re-occurance, where <10% is the norm. Obviously not a cure-all, but that difference, even with only 16 patients, is suggestive of a robust effect, for a disease that basically lacks effective treatments at the moment.

Science | AAAS

www.science.org

Wasnt mRNA technology initially developed for cancer before it was sidetracked for Covid?

 

[Noodle]

Wasnt mRNA technology initially developed for cancer before it was sidetracked for Covid?

Sidetracked?

 

[sglowrider]

Sidetracked?

Resources were diverted to deal with Covid within BioNtech.

 

[Bulk VanderHuge]

So you're one of the Illuminati, eh?

I bet he knows where the Ark of the Covenant is located.

 

[Baller23Boogie]

Baller should be banned

I strongly dislike you

 

[outside shooter]

Wasnt mRNA technology initially developed for cancer before it was sidetracked for Covid?

only sort of... that was the idea ~20 years ago (cancer) and then it was applied to SARS-CoV-1 in the early 2000s. That was an epidemic, though, that petered out before the SARS1 mRNA vaccine trials were even completed. But much was leaned about formulation, drug shelf life vs. temperature, production, distribution, etc so it was really SARS1 that greased the skids for SARS2.

Funny thing is that progress in cancer was slow because cancer immunology was considered unproven, while immune response has always been front and center in fighting infectious diseases. Now we know, through immune therapy and other discoveries that cancer immunology holds tremendous promise.

 

[Aloha Hoosier]

I need to be a mod. Not counting other mods, I would ban all but about 8 posters:
1.Brad
2. Marvin
3. Lars
4. MCM
5. IUcrazy
6. Sope
7. Lucy
8. Either COH or MTIOTF, but not both.
(I’m sure I left out a couple, but not many.)

Hell, make me a mod, and I would promise to never post.

You’d ban me?

 

[larsIU]

You’d ban me?

Give him hell. I’m staying on the island though.

 

[Univee2]

Give him hell. I’m staying on the island though.

When he turns the 16-inch guns on the island there won’t be an island. . .

 

[hoosboot]

I need to be a mod. Not counting other mods, I would ban all but about 8 posters:
1.Brad
2. Marvin
3. Lars
4. MCM
5. IUcrazy
6. Sope
7. Lucy
8. Either COH or MTIOTF, but not both.
(I’m sure I left out a couple, but not many.)

Hell, make me a mod, and I would promise to never post.

 

[larsIU]

When he turns the 16-inch guns on the island there won’t be an island. . .

Oh we’ll take him out long before then. If needed.

With extreme prejudice. Bulk that is.

 

[hoosboot]

I bet he knows where the Ark of the Covenant is located.

Duh. Everybody knows it's in some government warehouse. Row 17, Aisle 34.

 

[Univee2]

Duh. Everybody knows it's in some government warehouse. Row 17, Aisle 34.

Just the best, most cynical movie ending ever.

 

[sglowrider]

When he turns the 16-inch guns on the island there won’t be an island. . .

Thats not what his wife would say...

 

[Bulk VanderHuge]

You’d ban me?

You're not on my list? Crap. Of course you would be there. Serious oversight on my part.
Now, who to kick off...

That's easy...see ya Lucy.
(I'm sure you are on the list as someone else anyway.)

 

[Aloha Hoosier]

When he turns the 16-inch guns on the island there won’t be an island. . .

I'd use Tomahawk missiles . . .

 

[mcmurtry66]

You're not on my list? Crap. Of course you would be there. Serious oversight on my part.
Now, who to kick off...

That's easy...see ya Lucy.
(I'm sure you are on the list as someone else anyway.)

Lucy was an interesting inCLUsion

 

[larsIU]

That's easy...see ya Lucy.

Lucy was an interesting inCLUsion

I thought Goat was already on the list?

 

[mcmurtry66]

I thought Goat was already on the list?

not goat....

 

[larsIU]

not goat....

Developments?

 

[Aloha Hoosier]

I thought Goat was already on the list?

Lucy is a moonbat pretending to be a wingnut.

 

[larsIU]

Lucy is a moonbat pretending to be a wingnut.

Precisely.

 

[Noodle]

You're not on my list? Crap. Of course you would be there. Serious oversight on my part.
Now, who to kick off...

That's easy...see ya Lucy.
(I'm sure you are on the list as someone else anyway.)

I'm still trying to decide if I am proud or pissed that I am not on your list.

 

[mcmurtry66]

I'm still trying to decide if I am proud or pissed that I am not on your list.

Who cares. It’s a list. Not a ranking. @larsIU

 

[Univee2]

I'm still trying to decide if I am proud or pissed that I am not on your list.

You have your Helms trophy . . .

 

[Bulk VanderHuge]

I'm still trying to decide if I am proud or pissed that I am not on your list.

PU

 

[larsIU]

Who cares. It’s a list. Not a ranking. @larsIU

 

[Bulk VanderHuge]

It's a magic number.

 

[mcmurtry66]

@Bulk VanderHuge can you just delete that post. It’s causing confusion and problems

 

[Bulk VanderHuge]

@Bulk VanderHuge can you just delete that post. It’s causing confusion and problems

What'd you say,

?

 

[larsIU]

What'd you say,

?

Nice

 

[Courtsensetwo]

You left out Boomers. He hates Boomers.

As does TMP