Jab brought ‘unprecedentedly strong responses’ in patients whose disease had become resistant to chemotherapy and immunotherapy

In an international trial spanning 11 countries, the injection was offered to patients whose cancer had spread or come back and whose disease had failed to respond to other treatments.

In the trial, 102 patients with head and neck cancer, the world’s sixth most common cancer, were given the jab. Tumours shrank or disappeared completely in 43 patients, including 28 whose tumours shrank significantly and 15 who saw them eradicated entirely.

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      Some movies like “I Am Legend” have this as their plot, where it does not end well, so they are already prepared.

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        I think it’s a zombie book called Feed where the zombie apocalypse is brought about by two generically engineered cures, one for the common cold and the other for cancer. The upshot is that there’s no more common cold and there’s no more cancer, but there is a zombie apocalypse so that’s a bit of a downside.

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          So long as Will Smith is in it - surely nothing can be bad in a situation as long as he is involved? (/s btw 🤪)