Wednesday, November 05, 2025

Cancer treatments may get a boost from mRNA COVID vaccines

The mRNA COVID-19 vaccines might make some cancer treatments more effective. Lung cancer patients who received the vaccine within a few months of immunotherapy, which revs up the immune system, lived nearly twice as long as unvaccinated patients, researchers report October 22 in Nature.

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... The team observed something similar in people with melanoma, says Elias Sayour, a pediatric oncologist at the University of Florida College of Medicine in Gainesville.

The correlation suggests that mRNA vaccines " even those not designed for cancer " could make tumors more sensitive to current therapies. That's an exciting finding, says Hua Wang, a cancer vaccine researcher at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, who was not involved in the work. "It's definitely interesting. It's definitely important." ...


#1 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-11-05 10:13 PM

Looks promising, but this looks to be preliminary research. Let's see what the future research holds.

And, fwiw, a link to the article in Nature ...
www.nature.com



#2 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-11-05 10:15 PM

Again?

#3 | Posted by sentinel at 2025-11-05 10:26 PM

@#3

???

#4 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-11-05 10:29 PM

@#3 ... Again? ...

Has that article already been posted?

If so, provide the link and I'll reference and defer to it.

thx.

#5 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-11-05 10:45 PM

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