• Greyghoster@aussie.zone
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    5 months ago

    Given that Russian doctrine is all about disinformation and deflection, is he actually worth listening to until there is something on the table?

  • EndOfLine@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    I wonder if mRNA vaccine treatment for cancer is what they are referencing.

    From what I was able to understand (and maybe somebody can correct anything I’ve gotten wrong), the “vaccine” is tailored on a per-individual basis to target key protein markers of a petients particular cancer. This allows the body to identify and start to attack the cancer where previously the immune system would not be able to tell the difference between healthy and cancerous cells.

    Ref: https://www.cancer.gov/news-events/cancer-currents-blog/2022/mrna-vaccines-to-treat-cancer

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        5 months ago

        For Russia? IDK, seems a little unusual, they’re not exactly on the cutting edge of medicine. Also, any claim Putin makes should probably be treated with extreme skepticism.

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      5 months ago

      Created exclusively for and at the direction of someone who has cancer maybe?

      “We’re close, we promise, we don’t want to fall out a window.”

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      5 months ago

      Umm excuse me? Why was my comment removed about me rather dying then get injected from a terrorist country that loves killing people by injecting crap into them, or lying about everything they do to make themselves look good.

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    5 months ago

    Is a cancer vaccine even possible as a concept? Would it even be classified as a vaccine since cancer isn’t a virus?

    Obviously creating preventative measures for cancer would be amazing but I figured that wasn’t even a subject we were broaching since treating it is hard enough

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      Would it even be classified as a vaccine since cancer isn’t a virus?

      Increasingly everything injected gets called that in popular media, it seems.

      The article says he didn’t specify what kinds of cancer he’s talking about, or any exact timeline. You might be able to prevent a cancer, but all cancers seems pretty impossible, short of hypothetical nanobots that turn you into a disease-immune superhuman.

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      It’s totally possible and it already exists. You train your immune system (that’s the complicated part, you have to feed it some part of cancer cells and make it understan that’s the bad guys. Which is very complicated) to fight the cancerous cells.

      Let’s not firget there are around 300 families of cancer and there isn’t any vaccine against all of them obviously.

      That said, from russia it is obvious bs.

    • lemmefixdat4u@lemmy.world
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      Given that there are several cancer vaccines currently in human trials, this is not surprising. Most are based in mRNA technology, like the COVID-19 vaccine. Basically, researchers identify the marker proteins of a specific cancer, then create an mRNA vaccine that sensitizes the immune system. Then the immune system attacks cells with that marker. Other advances are methods to take down the “shield” that cancer cells have that hides them from the immune system.

      If a country chooses to ignore patents, they can copy the methods and produce their own vaccines with significantly less investment.