COVID-19 vaccines may help some cancer patients fight tumors

[PeteS in CA]

COVID-19 vaccines may help some cancer patients fight tumors

https://srnnews.com/covid-19-vaccines-may-help-some-cancer-patients-fight-tumors/

WASHINGTON (AP) — The most widely used COVID-19 vaccines may offer a surprise benefit for some cancer patients – revving up their immune systems to help fight tumors.

People with advanced lung or skin cancer who were taking certain immunotherapy drugs lived substantially longer if they also got a Pfizer or Moderna shot within 100 days of starting treatment, according to preliminary research being reported Wednesday in the journal Nature.

And it had nothing to do with virus infections.

Instead, the molecule that powers those specific vaccines, mRNA, appears to help the immune system respond better to the cutting-edge cancer treatment, concluded researchers from MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston and the University of Florida.

The vaccine “acts like a siren to activate immune cells throughout the body,” said lead researcher Dr. Adam Grippin of MD Anderson. “We’re sensitizing immune-resistant tumors to immune therapy.”

I have zero to do with anything medical (sorry, folks who want to believe I'm a paid shill for Big Bogey-Pharma), but it's pretty much common sense that revving up people's immune system sometimes has effects beyond the intended effect of the vaccine.

That said, PULL!

[DefiantMassRINO]

I call shenanigans.

I can envision mRNA technology contributing to the war against cancer.  Covid-19 shots, specifically, nope.

[Kamaji]

So what is it about mRNA that appears to be effective here where no other vaccine is effective?

[PeteS in CA]

So what is it about mRNA that appears to be effective here where no other vaccine is effective?

Based on my relatively recent (= less than 10 years) experiences with the tetanus, pneumonia (both being protein sub-unit technology), flu (inactivated virus technology), and Pfizer (Bogey-mRNA) vaccines, the latter seems to have a stronger immune system effect. Whether it's dosage-related or the way the different technologies work, .