First UK patients receive experimental messenger RNA cancer therapy
[quote]A revolutionary new cancer treatment known as mRNA therapy has been administered to patients at Hammersmith hospital in west London. The trial has been set up to evaluate the therapy’s safety and effectiveness in treating melanoma, lung cancer and other solid tumours. This research is still in its early stages and could take years before becoming available for patients.
[quote]A number of cancer vaccines have recently entered clinical trials across the globe. These fall into two categories: personalised cancer immunotherapies, which rely on extracting a patient’s own genetic material from their tumours; and therapeutic cancer immunotherapies, such as the mRNA therapy newly launched in London, which are “ready made” and tailored to a particular type of cancer.
| by Anonymous | reply 4 | February 9, 2024 12:58 AM
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That's interesting. The joint Australians of the Year this year, Drs Georgina Long and Richard Scolyer, are a biomedical research and treatment team who pioneered the use of immunotherapy early in the treatment of melanoma, which has already led to a very big increase in 5-year survival.
Scolyer was diagnosed with glioblastoma last year (that's fast-moving incurable brain cancer) and is using himself as a guinea pig to test the use of early (pre-operative) immunotherapy for that. So it looks like immunotherapy of one sort or another could be the next big breakthrough.
| by Anonymous | reply 1 | February 4, 2024 12:55 PM
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OP, thanks for posting this. Gives me hope to try and stay alive a little longer to see what's around the corner that might give me even more time.
| by Anonymous | reply 2 | February 9, 2024 12:14 AM
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Is one of the patients the King?
| by Anonymous | reply 3 | February 9, 2024 12:24 AM
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