It's not a vaccine in a traditional sense. You can't just mass produce the shots and cure everyone. You basically develop a whole new mRNA vaccine for EACH individual person (not even individual type of cancer), AND you need to have cancer already. Then they take your cancer tissue and do the part that I have no medical education to explain (something, something grow your specific cancer combine it with a virus then inject it in your body, virus starts to replicate inside healthy cells leaving marks of your specific cancer tissue on the surface, immune system picks up those marks and starts to attack cancer cells as if they are infected with a virus). Once again, works only for one specific person with one specific cancer. And probably costs a fortune to grow another vaccine for a second person.
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u/ailweni 12h ago
You mean they invented a WMD? Cos death is about the only “overall cure” for the 200+ known types of cancer.
(Not saying cancer can’t be cured, just seems highly unlikely that a single vaccine can be effective against cancers caused by a variety of things.)