
71. What Do COVID-19 and Cancer Have in Common?
Freakonomics, M.D.
Cancer Vaccines
The body typically can't do this on its own, which is where immunotherapies come in. mRNA vaccines are one way to stimulate this immune response from T cells. So there's certain antigens that we see on certain cancers and we design an mRNA or DNA vaccine that encodes those particular antigens.
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