The world’s first ovarian cancer vaccine could wipe the disease out, researchers have said.
OvarianVax is a vaccine that teaches the immune system to recognise and attack the earliest stages of ovarian cancer.
It’s being developed by scientists at the University of Oxford.
The hope is that women could receive the jab preventatively on the NHS with the goal of eradicating the disease.
Experts have suggested it could work in a similar way to the human papillomavirus (HPV) jab, which is on track to stamp out cervical cancer.
Let’s fucking goooo! People are just so clever. This is amazing.
While the “full-blown timeline” for the vaccine being approved “might be many years away” the visible impact could be sooner.
Professor Ahmed added that, through clinical trials, he would hope to start seeing the vaccine’s impact “in four or five years on the healthy population”.
This is really exciting. I wonder if vaccines could be developed for other cancers using a similar technique?
They will establish which proteins on the surface of early-stage ovarian cancer cells are best recognised by the immune system and how effectively the vaccine kills models of the disease in a lab.
Sounds like it would to me. Between this and mRNA vaccines, there’s a lot of promise out there.
The billions that got pumped into vaxine research… The mRNA method has received a nobel prize. Before this we had no good way (or as safe) to pre-train the immune system to “if you see this (virus, etc.) again, raise the alarms”. Now we do.
Edit: updated the wording a bit.
Katalin Karikó and Drew Weissman won the 2023 Nobel Prize in Medicine for their work on RNA leading to the COVID-19 vaccines (from Moderna and Pfizer)
Anti-vaxxers: hold my beer.
This is some pretty cool research but I already can’t wait to see the 100k per vaccine price in the USA lmao.
is this the kind of thing we will never hear about anymore, or is it legit?
i know it’s a pipe dream but if i live to see the eradication of cancer i will truly die happy
Aaaannnd it’s gone
Yes, and probably destroy your uterus.
