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tonymmorley OP t1_j08r8cn wrote

A personalized Moderna cancer vaccine, combined with collaborator Merck's biggest-selling drug, cut the risk of death or recurrence of the lethal melanoma skin cancer by 44% — Moderna mRNA Melanoma Vaccine Succeeds in Combination With Merck Drug December 13th, 2022 💊

>"The outcome “exceeds our expectations and the threshold for excitement from a randomized phase 2 proof-of-concept trial,” SVB Securities analysts said in a note to clients."

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PerilousAll t1_j08wg26 wrote

Nice! It may not seem like a big thing over all, but every little inroad we make into better health saves lives and contributes to our over all body of knowledge.

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IchooseYourName t1_j09ncab wrote

I just had a pre-cancerous sun spot frozen off my neck. I'll be celebrating this news tonight!

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StoneTwin t1_j0anzdp wrote

Unless this reduction in melanoma is offset by an increase of other cancers?

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YFMAS t1_j0a0pjw wrote

Considering practically every one of my grandparents and great grandparents and my father had skin cancers this may well save my lily white ass some day.

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nrfmartin t1_j0btdzp wrote

This came too late for my mom. Hope it saves a lot of lives.

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P5ych0pathV2 t1_j0cyknl wrote

"Cancer is a man made disease from a lab and these aren't even real vaccines and even if they are I ain't taking it, I'll rather have cancer than out something like that in my body!!!" drags on cigarette, swigs beer, eats McD's all at once

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