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Personalized mRNA vaccines for melanoma and lung cancer (www.optimistdaily.com)

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I missed this before, but apparently we're now nearly a year into Merck and Moderna's Phase-3 trials of a novel mRNA vaccine (mRNA-4157) in combination with Keytruda to slow or halt aggressive melanoma growth. (press release), and about 4 months into a similar Phase 3 trial of the same drug combo for small cell lung cancer (press release). Here's hoping that 2025 is the year we cure (some kinds of) cancer!

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[–] AmazingAwesomator 2 points 4 days ago (1 children)

the original article (linked in this article; from The Guardian) is over 8 months old.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 days ago

Yup. I linked both the original press release about melanoma as well as the one from October about the similar trial for lung cancer.