Cancer vaccine may be ready by 2030, say founders of COVID vaccine-makers BioNTech

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https://abc13.com/cancer-vaccine-2023-biontech-mrna-covid-and/12341811/

The world could be only a few years away from a cancer vaccine, according to the couple behind the Pfizer/BioNtech COVID-19 vaccine.

"We feel that a cure for cancer or to changing cancer patients' lives is in our grasp," professor Ozlem Tureci told BBC News in an interview over the weekend. Her husband, professor Ugur Sahin, with whom she cofounded the German pharmaceutical company BioNTech, said he thought cancer vaccines could be widely available "before 2030."

The husband-and-wife duo founded BioNTech in 2008 originally to develop and produce treatments for individualized cancer immunotherapy, using mRNA technology. But when the pandemic hit, they adapted this technology to create one of the first and most effective COVID-19 vaccines.

Scientists have been working on a cancer vaccine for decades. One approach is to teach the immune system to recognize and destroy cancer cells -- ideally preventing cancer from growing in the first place. Further along are other types of vaccines designed to treat people who already have cancer, including one FDA-approved cancer vaccine for people with advanced prostate cancer.

[Joinfortmill]

1. Amazing.

[sinkingfeeling]

2. Cuba developed CIMAvax-EGF, a vaccine for lung cancer years ago.

[bucolic_frolic]

3. There is an FDA-approved vaccine for advanced prostate cancer?

Or does that sentence say it is the furthest along?

Well here's the deal on Provenge: https://www.uclahealth.org/medical-services/urology/prostate-cancer/treatment-options/advanced-prostate-cancer/provenge-advanced-prostate-cancer-treatment

We were told in the mid 1990s that it would only be a few years to new treatments. An entire generation has fought to deliver their elders to the treatment window that never materialized. Milken Institute was involved in funding as I recall.

So Provenge has been approved since 2003? And I bet few have received it. WTF?

[I_UndergroundPanther]

4. So freaking cool!

So many people suffer from cancer.
This made my day😺

[WarGamer]

5. BTW, It's in partnership with Moderna... who have been researching Cancer vaccines for years.