Pancreatic cancer is soon to become the second leading cause of cancer death in the United States by 2025. Despite these best treatments, survival rates for pancreatic cancer patients remain only around 12%. This week on Into It, Vulture's Pop Culture Podcast, Sean Ramos from here with two qualified individuals to help you understand a clinical trial for a pancreatic cancer vaccine.
Dr. Vinod Balachandran explains how he and his colleagues successfully treated pancreatic cancer with bespoke mRNA vaccines. Science journalist Charles Graeber says this could be cancer’s “penicillin moment.”
This episode was produced by Avishay Artsy, edited by Matt Collette, fact-checked by Laura Bullard, engineered by Michael Raphael, and hosted by Sean Rameswaram.
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