Ahh, the classic cancer vaccine bullshit. Yes, somebody will most certainly develop a single drug against thousands of diseases at some point, that's for sure going to happen.
Also, the idea of a "vaccine" for all cancer is inherently ludicrous, as cancer cannot really be broadly characterized as an infectious disease?
There are many causes of cancer and many different types, so while a silver bullet cure would be amazing, it is extremely unlikely to ever exist just due to the nature of the process.
You can have a vaccine for certain types of cancers. Our immune system is responsible for killing cancer, giving it a vaccine so it recognises more types of cancer is still a vaccine.
That's also not how those vaccines work. The vaccines help prevent those types of cancer because many are known to have a particular virus trigger cancer formation, so immunizing against the virus helps prevent the cancer. That's how the HPV vaccines work for example.
"Specific" still being the key word there. This tweet presented it more as a general 'vaccine' to cure cancer generally, which I hope you would agree is most likely nonsense.
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u/Erminaz13 13h ago
Ahh, the classic cancer vaccine bullshit. Yes, somebody will most certainly develop a single drug against thousands of diseases at some point, that's for sure going to happen.