2023-11-05 15:05:37
Of course we all dream of it, because almost no one is unaffected by the topic of cancer in their lives. Although tumor therapy has made great progress, the disease continues to result in severe suffering and death. According to Curavec boss Alexander Zehnder, this should be over by 2028 at the latest, then, in his opinion, there will be an effective mRNA vaccination that will help specifically prevent cancer growth. Even if the body is full of metastases.
Will cancer become a “normal” chronic disease that can be controlled?
“Cancer will no longer be a death sentence”
Zehnder literally said: “Cancer will no longer be a death sentence.” And: “Research into cancer vaccines has been going on for 20 years. But the current progress is enormous.” His company is now combining mRNA vaccinations with artificial intelligence to put limits on proliferating tumors. The new type of vaccination is not intended to be preventative, but rather to serve as a long-term therapy that extends the lives of sick people by decades and at the same time makes life worth living again. What it has in common with the classic vaccination is that it specifically stimulates the immune system and fixes it on the cancer.
Biontech is also reporting initial successes on this path. The mRNA vaccination follows on from the existing CARVac therapy, which causes tumor cells to die but does not (yet) work reliably. All too often things go wrong, the tumor cells are not recognized or the effect is too short-term or too small. The vaccine is intended to stimulate the tumor cells to produce the protein Claudin-6 and a corresponding antigen, which they then present on their surface: a suitable docking point for introduced CAR-T cells, which recognize and eliminate tumors marked in this way more quickly.
Biontech advocates the same thesis and calls the year 2030
Biontech co-founder Türeci says: “Our goal is to unlock the potential of CAR-T therapies for solid tumors and to help improve the treatment outcome for a number of tumors for which the options are currently still very limited. « Chairman Şahin, like Zehnder, is of the opinion that the use of vaccines against cancer will be widespread in just a few years: “We believe that this will be possible on a larger scale for patients before 2030.” That would certainly make the world a lot more beautiful . But is it true?
Those: focus.de
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