raynorelyp t1_isk48zs wrote on October 16, 2022 at 4:19 PM

Reply to comment by paulfdietz in The Race to Make a Vaccine for Breast Cancer by AdmiralKurita

I mean… there are a lot of viruses but vaccines are effective against basically all of them except a few. And even those few we’ve basically solved at this point, we just haven’t finished the trials.

Edit: a lot of people seem to be weirdly skeptical of mRNA or are pretending we have anything remotely close to that for cancer. Ironically the closest thing to an mRNA vaccine equivalent for cancer is… a literal mRNA vaccine.

SnapcasterWizard t1_iskivrv wrote on October 16, 2022 at 5:53 PM

??? It takes a lot of time and effort to develop a new vaccine. We dont have a universal "anti virus" vaccine.

raynorelyp t1_isl10sn wrote on October 16, 2022 at 7:47 PM

No, but we have a near universal strategy in using traditional and mRNA vaccines. The only viruses I haven’t heard that we can use it for already have other working solutions.

We don’t have anything remotely close there that as a strategy for cancer. Chemo is insanely destructive to our bodies.

TheGoodFight2015 t1_isko8gn wrote on October 16, 2022 at 6:26 PM

No this is wrong, please edit this. There are many viruses, and every novel virus requires a new vaccine to be developed and tested for safety and efficacy. That means the vaccine needs to #1 not hurt people, and #2 actually protect against the worst effects of the infection (a bonus /ideal #3 is effective prevention of getting sick and being contagious).

raynorelyp t1_isl0o54 wrote on October 16, 2022 at 7:45 PM

Are you saying mRNA vaccines won’t eventually solve almost every virus and for the rest like HIV we don’t already have medicine effectively curing it in a lot of cases?

LightOfTheElessar t1_isll0zf wrote on October 16, 2022 at 10:00 PM

I'm pretty sure the gist of what they're saying is that you were massively oversimplying medical research. For my own two cents, I think the development of mRNA vaccines is amazing, but it's extremely off putting to see it get held up as the one stop shop for "solving almost every virus" so soon. Pump the brakes a bit and let the research and development finish running it's course for more vaccines before taking victory laps, for lack of a better phrase, that big.