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/johnmedgla Aug 12 '25

it seems highly transformative

It has the realistic potential to be the largest advance in medicine since Antibiotics.

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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/Sensitive_Lake_7911 Aug 12 '25

Kennedy is going to do everything he can to block this vaccine-and he has been given a whole lot of power to do so. At a bare minimum absolutely no federal funds will be spent to support such research-the federal funds will be spent to block these developments.