More testing will be needed to really turn this approach into a viable treatment for people battling brain cancer. But the findings are an impressive step forward.
Cancer vaccines aren’t a new idea. They use the same fundamentals that enable vaccines for infectious pathogens like viruses and bacteria: priming our immune system into recognizing and attacking something that’s harmful to our bodies. But cancer is a fickle thing—it emerges from the body’s own cells and can be caused by a number of different factors, which means tumors can vary wildly from person to person, and even within the body itself.
. And they may have just developed one that could stop glioblastoma—a deadly form of brain cancer—in its tracks., Harvard University scientists working at Brigham and Women’s Hospital have developed a new cancer vaccine by genetically engineering brain cancer cells themselves, which not only kills the brain tumor in mice but also prevents the resurgence of cancer later on.
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