Personalized Cancer Vaccines Could Be Key Piece of Cancer ‘Moonshot’
By Jeremy HobsonPersonalized Cancer Vaccines Could Be Key Piece of Cancer ‘Moonshot’
By Jeremy Hobson
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In his State of the Union address Tuesday, President Obama said he wants to “make America the country that cures cancer once and for all.”
A key piece of that “moonshot” – as the president and vice president have called it – may be a treatment that’s still very much in the experimental phase: personalized cancer vaccines.
Here & Now’s Jeremy Hobson talks with STAT senior science writer Sharon Begley about how those personalized vaccines – called neoantigen vaccines – work, and why they could become a central player in the push to cure cancer.
Read more about personalized cancer vaccines on STAT