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I'm completely out of my depth when it comes to medical research, but the way I understood the mRNA vaccines against cancer types was a bit more broader than wh

I'm completely out of my depth when it comes to medical research, but the way I understood the mRNA vaccines against cancer types was a bit more broader than what you suggest: Specific cancer cells produce unique proteins that can be targetted by a "vaccine", so as to enable the body to directly attack the mutated cells. I put vaccine in quotation mark, as it rather seems to be a type of mRNA therapy.

kuhewa 5y ago
Different approaches just like for prophylactic vaccines, in some cases it's just like an old-school vaccine where dead cells or protein antigen is presented, but yeah cancer vaccines are typically therapeutic rather than prophylactic.