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Fri Aug 23, 2024, 07:19 AM Aug 2024

Promising lung cancer vaccine trial begins in UK


https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/1024/cpsprodpb/ae37/live/03ddbe10-6126-11ef-af52-71029fe3b80e.jp

Promising lung cancer vaccine trial begins in UK

2 hours ago
Michelle Roberts
Digital health editor, BBC News



PA Media
Janusz Racz, 67, says he is "open to trying new things"


A 67-year-old man has become the first person in the UK to try what doctors hope will be a revolutionary new treatment for lung cancer - a vaccine that tells the body how to fight and kill the disease.

It uses the same mRNA technology as some Covid jabs to give instructions to the immune system.

The early-stage trial in which Janusz Racz is taking part will check the shot is safe.

Some 34 research sites in seven countries, including University College London in the UK, will recruit 130 patients to try it.

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Promising lung cancer vaccine trial begins in UK (Original Post) sl8 Aug 2024 OP
Hope it helps. I know a number of cancer survivors. We must keep trying. twodogsbarking Aug 2024 #1
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