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[–] iturnedintoanewt@lemmy.world 40 points 5 days ago (10 children)

Previous research has focused more on homing in on a target or tailoring a vaccine specific to a patient's own cancer profile.

"This study suggests a third emerging paradigm," said study co-author Duane Mitchell, MD. "What we found is by using a vaccine designed not to target cancer specifically but rather to stimulate a strong immunologic response, we could elicit a very strong anticancer reaction. And so this has significant potential to be broadly used across cancer patients – even possibly leading us to an off-the-shelf cancer vaccine."

So... Kinda triggering your own auto-inmune response. But I'd be wary of trouble with overtly aggressive auto-inmune responses, as we already have quite a few diseases coming from these, as well.

[–] eletes@sh.itjust.works 15 points 5 days ago (3 children)

I guess if I was gonna die and absolutely wanted more time I would make the trade off for living with lupus

[–] jaennaet@sopuli.xyz 9 points 5 days ago

As someone with an autoimmune disorder, I'm honestly not all that sold on whether that's a good tradeoff.

Yay, you're not acutely dying of cancer, but now your body is attacking your internal organs and depending on how shitty your luck is, you can eg. look forward to liver and/or kidney transplants (possibly more than once, too)

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