The Extraordinary Promise of Personalized Cancer Vaccines – Podcast

Glioblastomas are an extremely aggressive form of brain tumor, which is why the news this week about a vaccine that has shown promise in the fight against these diseases is so exciting. And this comes on the heels of the announcement of a new trial of the world’s first personalized mRNA vaccine for melanoma, a type of skin cancer. Ian Sample talks to Prof. Alan Melcher from the Institute of Cancer Research about how these vaccines work and whether they could one day be used to tackle cancer before it’s even detectable on scans

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