Drug companies Moderna and Merck say a vaccine treatment for the skin cancer melanoma has an overall survival rate of 96%
A new breakthrough in treating melanoma has been described as 'a real shot in the arm' for the development of tumour vaccines.
Merck and Moderna, which have been collaborating since 2016, are also conducting a late-stage study of their vaccine and Keytruda combination.the vaccine can change depending on the patient's own tumour. "There are other combinations of drugs which are also somewhat superior to that in similar settings - so there will be a bit to work out yet.
"When we weren't able to do that successfully by the 1980s/1990s there was a depressing sense that perhaps the immune system - which was designed by nature to recognise foreign invaders in our body - was not designed to recognise our own cells if they misbehaved.
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