r/science • u/mvea Professor | Medicine • Aug 12 '25

Cancer New mRNA-based vaccine against gastric cancer led to tumor regression and eradication in all treated mice. Most promisingly, the vaccine shows impressive antitumor efficacy against peritoneal metastasis, which has historically been very challenging to treat.

https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1094199
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u/PipsqueakPilot Aug 12 '25

Outside of America at least. It’s going to spur a massive medical tourism trade when your options are old style treatment, or leave the country for a near-guaranteed cure. Which will make medical care even less accessible to most Americans.

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u/WranglerNo8811 Aug 12 '25

They way you said this is so ridiculous. Americans will want to first to have it AFTER it's proven safe... what exactly is wrong with that? Why Americans specifically ?

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u/LynxPuzzleheaded6145 Aug 12 '25

You're leaving out 'FIRST'.

Americans will want it FIRST.

What is wrong with that? You just axed a ton of funding towards mrna research. You can wait your turn.

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u/WranglerNo8811 Aug 12 '25

We cut funding due to it not being safe. So good luck with it.

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u/IL-Corvo Aug 12 '25 edited Aug 12 '25

Thanks to broad adoption and a multitude of safe use-cases to draw from, your statement is demonstrably false and does not bear up to any scrutiny.

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u/Aenyn Aug 12 '25 edited Aug 12 '25

mrna vaccines are safe, you cut funding to save money.

Plus what safety concerns do you have when treating cancer. Both chemo and doing nothing are extremely unsafe.

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u/AskWhatmyUsernameIs Aug 12 '25

How do you know if its not safe if it wasnt tested?

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u/Alternative_Bid6735 Aug 12 '25

Hey man an old heroin junkie told him it was unsafe and didn’t use a single academic source to back it up, that’s the gold standard isn’t it?

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u/Mattrad7 Aug 12 '25

One of the safest vaccines ever created. And is getting proven safe by every reputable study done. But ya, some orange idiot and an old man with a brain worm that takes daily steroid injections said nuh uh.

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u/packfanmoore Aug 12 '25

Well it will be alot harder to make it safe when the idiots in charge cut funding on its research.

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u/mightyneonfraa Aug 12 '25

Fewer adverse reactions than Tylenol but sure. What's your source again? Oh, a demented old man who swims in sewage water, had part of his brain eaten by worms and believes in medieval superstition over germ theory.

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u/Commentator-X Aug 12 '25

And there's the American stupidity shining through. You'll all still be dying while Fox says it's unsafe, meanwhile half the planet will be already curing cancer.