The world’s first ovarian cancer vaccine could wipe the disease out, researchers have said.
OvarianVax is a vaccine that teaches the immune system to recognise and attack the earliest stages of ovarian cancer.
It’s being developed by scientists at the University of Oxford.
The hope is that women could receive the jab preventatively on the NHS with the goal of eradicating the disease.
Experts have suggested it could work in a similar way to the human papillomavirus (HPV) jab, which is on track to stamp out cervical cancer.
Let’s fucking goooo! People are just so clever. This is amazing.
While the “full-blown timeline” for the vaccine being approved “might be many years away” the visible impact could be sooner.
Professor Ahmed added that, through clinical trials, he would hope to start seeing the vaccine’s impact “in four or five years on the healthy population”.
This is really exciting. I wonder if vaccines could be developed for other cancers using a similar technique?
They will establish which proteins on the surface of early-stage ovarian cancer cells are best recognised by the immune system and how effectively the vaccine kills models of the disease in a lab.
Sounds like it would to me. Between this and mRNA vaccines, there’s a lot of promise out there.
mRNA research exploded during the pandemic. Several cancer vaccines for various cancers are being developed right now!!!
This is great news. Yet, sadly, I am drawn to wondering who will complain about this the loudest. Will it be misogynists who say “they’re not helping men with their cancer”, or anti-vaxxers saying “this vaccine will actually CAUSE cancer”?
What about people who are both misogynist and anti-vaccine?
Yeah, I knew it. Here come the sad sacks with the useless “this is good news, but…”
It’s a good thing we invented this straw person to have this whole discussion artificially when literally no one else was bringing it up. If we can’t find any monsters I guess we’ll invent them and do it anyway. 🙄
They undoubtedly exist, but we shouldn’t worry about what some troglodytic moron has to say about the issue.
They don’t get a vaccine. More for the sane people.
Fuck em, essentially. Rather have cancer than a vaccine, that’s their choice. It’s not until it’s a required vaccine that it makes much difference.
Fuck em, essentially.
Yes, that’s the attitude that people have as they make the world worse. It’s not the best attitude.
No it isn’t. People have a basic level of accountability. If someone doesn’t want a life saving vaccine because they’re too ignorant to understand the science behind our bodies, no amount of oration will convince them otherwise. So yeah. Fuck em.
And just what are you suppose to do with the people who are intentionally holding everything back?
If you believe in not hurting people, you don’t hurt people.
What about people who are both misogynist and anti-vaccine?
$10 says Alex Jones and his troglodyte cult following are gonna have a field day 😮💨
Alex is a little busy losing everything he owns right now.
He’ll multitask
Sure. He’ll also drink large quantities of liquor and cry.
Absolutely.
