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mcscom t1_iskm9g2 wrote
Reply to comment by Wiggie49 in The Race to Make a Vaccine for Breast Cancer by AdmiralKurita
All cancers (so far) have some amount of DNA changes in them that make them different from the rest of the body. The number and type of DNA mutations varies greatly depending on the type of cancer. Whether and how much these changes are "detectable" by the immune system varies as well, but theoretically it should be possible to design vaccines or other immune therapies for any type of cancer.
mcscom t1_isjzcxd wrote
Reply to comment by Wiggie49 in The Race to Make a Vaccine for Breast Cancer by AdmiralKurita
All cancer have some mutations that would make them different from normal tissue. The question is just how targetable those mutations are by the immune system
mcscom t1_isjtpe8 wrote
Reply to comment by tlighta in The Race to Make a Vaccine for Breast Cancer by AdmiralKurita
What's wrong with gene therapy?
mcscom t1_islz77r wrote
Reply to comment by kolitics in The Race to Make a Vaccine for Breast Cancer by AdmiralKurita
What defines a vaccine? Not sure that definition is as clear as you may think.