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Biontech is planning cancer vaccines before 2030::undefined

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[-] ExLisper@linux.community 13 points 9 months ago

Hey, it's already before 2030. Where's my vaccine?

[-] silverbax@lemmy.world 12 points 9 months ago

We really need some vetting on the 'sources' posted here. Lemmy is voting up stories based on headlines from BS links.

[-] sndrtj@feddit.nl 18 points 9 months ago

ZDF is a major broadcaster in Germany.

[-] silverbax@lemmy.world 2 points 9 months ago

Then they should do a better job vetting their stories, this is a medical bunk press release.

[-] pleb_maximus@feddit.de 15 points 9 months ago

The bots google translate link is borked, but ZDF isn't exactly a BS source.

[-] BedSharkPal@lemmy.ca 12 points 9 months ago
[-] anteaters@feddit.de 14 points 9 months ago

If only there was an article linked that contains quotations of Sahin giving examples. Oh if only someone even copy-pasted that as a comment into this thread.

[-] Daxtron2@startrek.website 8 points 9 months ago

Can you translate it into a 3 second gif for me? I can't read

[-] tsonfeir@lemm.ee 9 points 9 months ago

Right? Not all cancer is the same on a cellular level and to think there would be a vaccine against “cellular mutation” as a broad topic would be asinine. Especially since a lot of those mutations are from environmental exposure.

I’m certainly not one to dismiss scientific progress, but call me skeptical about the 1,000th cure/treatment/vaccine for “cancer” announcement this year.

[-] SCB@lemmy.world 4 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Not all cancer is the same on a cellular level

I’m certainly not one to dismiss scientific progress, but call me skeptical about the 1,000th cure/treatment/vaccine for “cancer” announcement this year.

One imagines there are many cure/treatment/vaccines because there are many different cancers

[-] tsonfeir@lemm.ee 2 points 9 months ago

You missed the point of the comment.

[-] Maalus@lemmy.world 1 points 9 months ago

Yet they all scream "we have found a cure for cancer!" As if they have found one for all of them.

[-] SCB@lemmy.world 2 points 9 months ago

They have literally found a cure for cancer. This is one application.

[-] DirigibleProtein@aussie.zone 12 points 9 months ago

Alternative to chemotherapy

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BioNTech plans cancer vaccines before 2030

26.11.2023 | 12:01

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Can we hope for an alternative to chemotherapy in the fight against cancer soon? The head of the vaccine manufacturer BioNTech expects a vaccine before 2030.

BioNTech boss Ugur Sahin says: "We want to develop cancer immunotherapies so that the body's own defense system can fight cancer." (Archive image)

Source: dpa

In the fight against cancer, there could soon be hope for those affected. The vaccine manufacturer BioNTech assumes that the first tailor-made mRNA-based vaccines against cancer could be approved within the next few years. BioNTech boss Ugur Sahin said [to] "Bild am Sonntag":

We expect that our first mRNA-based cancer vaccines can be approved before 2030.

Ugur Sahin, BioNTech

In addition, it is planned to have "study data available for various other therapeutic approaches in the years 2025 to 2029." If they are positive, approval is possible according to the assessment of the BioNTech boss.

Through mRNA, the immune system should learn to recognize "high-personal" cancer cells and then fight them specifically. What is the current state of research?

Cancer therapy: BioNTech relies on the body's own defense system

Specifically, BioNTech's approach provides for cancer immunotherapy in which the body's own defense system can fight cancer.

"We believe that this is one of the central elements to control cancer in the long term or ideally to be able to cure it." In addition, there are already immunotherapies against various types of cancer in clinical development, explains Sahin and further explains:

For example, in breast cancer in the metastatic stage, in colon cancer after surgery, i.e. in the adjuvant stage, as well as in pancreatic cancer and lung cancer.

Prostate cancer is well curable if it is detected in time. This is possible with the so-called PSA value, which in Germany, however, is not paid by the health insurance companies.

BioNTech wants to provide individualized vaccine

The aim of BioNTech is to set up a company in such a way that it can technologically map all the necessary steps of a therapy within a short time. The BioNTech founder explains:

The goal is: We receive a blood and tumor sample of the patient and after four weeks we provide the individualized vaccine.

This should ideally be possible for tens of thousands of patients a year.

BioNTech had each made billions in profits in the past two years from proceeds from the vaccine against the coronavirus and now wants to promote the development of therapies, for example against cancer.

Source: ZDF

[-] konalt@lemmy.world 4 points 9 months ago
[-] AlmightySnoo@lemmy.world 7 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Looks like the bot's Google Translate link doesn't work. If you have Firefox, you can open the original link in German (https://www.zdf.de/nachrichten/wissen/biontech-krebs-forschung-impfstoff-100.html ) and then use the offline translation that's available in recent Firefox versions, it's fast and pretty accurate.

I'm not sure what's new though, as they've already stated that goal last year: https://www.theguardian.com/society/2022/oct/16/vaccines-to-treat-cancer-possible-by-2030-say-biontech-founders

[-] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 1 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

No thanks.

If there's no risk of cancer, what's the point of smoking tobacco? 🤷🏻‍♂️

[-] Tranquilizer@lemmy.world 1 points 9 months ago

Selling the cause as the cure. Brilliant marketing. The useless eaters are too gullible not to take it I'm afraid.

[-] greybeard@lemmy.one 21 points 9 months ago

Am I misunderstanding you or are you saying that vaccines are causing cancer? Because if that is what you are saying, what are you smoking?

[-] OKRainbowKid@feddit.de 14 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

That's exactly what they're saying, while ironically calling reasonable people gullible and considering themself enlightened.

[-] Tranquilizer@lemmy.world 1 points 9 months ago

Y'all should look into eugenics as an origin for modern vaccines. Or how autism is to an umbrella term and euphemism for vaccine damage. If you want something relevant from 2021: sudden adult death syndrome.

[-] ExLisper@linux.community 6 points 9 months ago

Isn't the origin of modern vaccines the same as origin of old vaccines? When did vaccines became 'modern'? When they started placing 5G chips in them or before that?

[-] Tranquilizer@lemmy.world 2 points 9 months ago

Yes, when the Borg came to earth and the people chose to assimilate. Resistance would have been futile.

[-] Captainvaqina@sh.itjust.works 14 points 9 months ago

Holy shit you're reeeeeaaaaallllly dumb.

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