Physicians have been working to treat and study cancer since the days of ancient Egypt. More than 5,000 years later, major progress has been made to treat the disease but scientists still haven’t found a cure.
With the introduction of mRNA vaccines in the 2010s – vaccines that use messenger RNA molecules in cells to train the body to fight dangerous invaders – doctors found a promising new tool in the fight against the disease. Now some say they’ve gotten a step closer to stopping cancer in its tracks.
