"This study suggests a third emerging paradigm," said study co-author Duane Mitchell, MD. "What we found is by using a vaccine designed not to target cancer specifically but rather to stimulate a strong immunologic response, we could elicit a very strong anticancer reaction. And so this has significant potential to be broadly used across cancer patients – even possibly leading us to an off-the-shelf cancer vaccine."

So... Kinda triggering your own auto-inmune response. But I'd be wary of trouble with overtly aggressive auto-inmune responses, as we already have quite a few diseases coming from these, as well.

[–] eletes@sh.itjust.works 15 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I guess if I was gonna die and absolutely wanted more time I would make the trade off for living with lupus

[–] ivanafterall@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago

living with lupus

[–] Tattorack@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

It's never lupus.

[–] kinther@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

Multiple Sclerosis comes to mind

[–] yermaw@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 year ago

Superbugs are gonna look like regular bugs.

[–] Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This sounds like the intro plot to one of those zombie movies...

[–] ameancow@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

Because Hollywood is so insanely bad at portraying science even remotely accurately, literally everything sounds like the plot to a zombie movie.

I'm not even kidding, I'm not in the biotech field and even I feel my eye twitch every time I see a movie with zombified lab animals smacking into the bars of their cages as the plucky heroes try to unravel what vile sins against nature those evil researchers uncovered in their hubris.

[–] OptimisticPessimist@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Immune checkpoint inhibitors are already a relatively common therapy for several types of cancer.

[–] Taleya@aussie.zone 1 points 1 year ago

Yeah i've had RA since i was 12, that explaination of function just made my brain screech