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People who consume sugar-sweetened beverages on a daily basis have higher risk of stomach cancer

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Laser therapy offers weapon against deadly brain tumors

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Moderna and Merck say mRNA cancer vaccine succeeded in late-stage melanoma trial

A personalized mRNA cancer vaccine, added to an existing treatment, slowed the return of melanoma and its spread to other parts of the body in a late-stage clinical trial, the drugmakers Merck and Moderna announced Wednesday, results that could herald a new, powerful approach in oncology.

So-called “neoantigen” vaccines have long been seen as having potential as cancer treatments, but this is the first randomized Phase 3 clinical trial aimed at definitively proving their benefit. In this case the personalized vaccine, intismeran, was combined with Merck’s Keytruda in adjuvant melanoma, meaning patients’ disease had been surgically removed.

If the results hold up — the drugmakers did not immediately release detailed data — they could deliver new hope and potentially longer lives for patients. They could also be a further testament to the power of mRNA as a platform to develop both traditional vaccines and therapeutics.

“I think this is really an important achievement,” said Jedd Wolchok, the director of the Meyer Cancer Center at Weill Cornell Medicine and an immunotherapy pioneer. “It tells us what might have been considered science fiction 15 or 20 years ago — that we can produce a personalized vaccine based on sequencing from a tumor from a pathology specimen — could be used to delay progression of melanoma.

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Lung cancer patient becomes tumor-free after treatment with selenite

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New drug combination may help treat advanced prostate cancer

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Pre-cancerous blood cells may fuel disease risk by prematurely aging the bone marrow

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