The core issue with cancer is that the immune system does not combat the tumor. Cancer patients suffer from damage caused by the tumor and by aggressive therapi

The core issue with cancer is that the immune system does not combat the tumor. Cancer patients suffer from damage caused by the tumor and by aggressive therapies. Cancerous mutations happen all the time. Usually, the affected cells either * repair the damage, * get wrecked by the damage's side effects, * suicide or * get blasted by the immune system because the mutation alters their surface proteins in weird ways. Tumors form because the cancerous mutations succeed to fly under the radar of the immune system. mRNA therapy can be used to make the immune system target specific surface features of cancer cells, or to do something else in connection with the cancer cells that attracts the immune system's attention.