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mRNA vaccine stops pancreatic cancer, study finds
(www.thebrighterside.news)
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Seeing as they are specifically tailored to each person and they work to treat those that already have pancreatic cancer… is vaccine the correct term?
Is it a vaccine because it induces a response within the patient that then kills the cancer, whereas something that would be considered a treatment would directly destroy the cancer like anti-biotics do to bacterial infections?
Yeah. It's the mechanism that defines a vaccine, not when it's administered.
It trains you own T-cells to recognise the cancer cells, so it's a vaccine.