Moderna, Merck's Cancer Vaccine Breakthrough Raises Hope For New Wave Of Personalized Treatments

Source: International Business Times

Instead of attacking rapidly dividing cells like chemotherapy or broadly stimulating the immune system, personalized cancer vaccines are designed to teach a patient's immune system to recognize mutations specific to their cancer and target cells carrying them. Reuters A personalized cancer vaccine developed by Moderna and Merck has delivered a major breakthrough in melanoma, raising hopes that the same approach could eventually be used against a much wider range of cancers. The treatment, known as intismeran autogene, is designed individually for each patient using mutations found in their tumor.