The Effect of T Cells on Cancer Symptoms

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Pancreatic cancer vaccines are safe and feasible for fast individualized production, according to research.
In 50% of patients given mRNA vaccines, immune systems were taught to recognize their own cancer cells using a T cell army.
The other half of patients did not have a response to the vaccine, with no T cell army building toward tumor identification and kill.

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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