Sunday, February 25, 2018

AN ANTI-CANCER VACCINE?


Linda and friend
Santorini, late 1980s


Well, dammit! I am sure I have written something about this before, but I can’t find it.  (There are 561 of these little blogs so far.  Have you read them all?)  So, instead of tossing out a Comment I am forced to publish a new blog entry (#562).  But don’t worry, it will be short.  I am scheduled to play some golf in about 30 minutes.

Some people at Stanford are experimenting with what they are pleased to call a vaccine.  On mice, natch – although a human trial seem in the offing.  They inject two molecules (well, squirts containing lots of them) directly into the tumor – which promptly dies.  Better yet, this somehow stimulates the immune system to search out and destroy similar tumor cells throughout the body.
  
Wow!  Good news!  Let’s hope it pans out.

https://www.nih.gov/news-events/nih-research-matters/injection-prompts-mouse-immune-system-destroy-tumors





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