A novel cancer vaccine to treat non-small cell lung cancer is being tested for the first time in a patient at University College London Hospitals in the UK.
The mRNA vaccine, developed by the German firm BioNTech, works by priming the immune system to recognize and fight cancer cells, according to the UK's National Institute for Health and Care Research.Unlike chemotherapy, the vaccine reduces the risk of toxicity to healthy, non-cancerous cells by enhancing the immune responses to target cancer cells, researchers said.
The first participant is 67-year-old Janusz Racz of London, who received the treatment at the National Institute for Health and Care Research's Clinical Research Facility.The clinical study will test if the new treatment is safe and well-tolerated, is effective on its own at targeting tumors and can work with established treatments, like chemotherapy, to target tumors more effectively.
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