A 'landmark moment'.
A major cancer vaccine trial has been launched A man with bowel cancer has become the first of thousands of people in England to be treated with a personalised jab for the disease on the NHS. Health leaders hailed the treatment as ‘a landmark moment’ for patients and the NHS. Officials said many more people are expected to be recruited to take part in vaccine trials for various forms of cancer in the coming years as part of the new scheme.
Elliot with Hayley, colorectal cancer support worker Keely Holloway, oncology consultant Dr Victoria Kunene, oncology consultant Dr Mark Openshaw and research sister Zoe Haygarth at Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Birmingham ‘Using this information, we can create an individualised investigational cancer vaccine. It is too early yet to say if these will be successful, though we are extremely hopeful.
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