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Dannell D. Boatman, Assistant Professor and Health Communication Researcher, West Virginia University

Cancer vaccines could transform treatment and prevention – but misinformation about mRNA vaccines threatens their potential

A cancer vaccine would only help patients if they were willing to take it. Javier Zayas Photography/Moment via Getty Images

Scientists are making rapid progress toward a long-awaited goal that could help to reshape cancer care: mRNA cancer vaccines with the potential to significantly boost the immune system’s ability to fight and eliminate tumors.

Since the early 2000s, there have been over 120 promising clinical trials testing the use of mRNA vaccines to treat multiple cancer types, such as melanoma, brain, breast, lung and prostate cancer.

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