"This study suggests a third emerging paradigm," said study co-author Duane Mitchell, MD. "What we found is by using a vaccine designed not to target cancer specifically but rather to stimulate a strong immunologic response, we could elicit a very strong anticancer reaction. And so this has significant potential to be broadly used across cancer patients – even possibly leading us to an off-the-shelf cancer vaccine."

So... Kinda triggering your own auto-inmune response. But I'd be wary of trouble with overtly aggressive auto-inmune responses, as we already have quite a few diseases coming from these, as well.

[–] eletes@sh.itjust.works 15 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

I guess if I was gonna die and absolutely wanted more time I would make the trade off for living with lupus

[–] ivanafterall@lemmy.world 11 points 2 weeks ago

living with lupus

[–] jaennaet@sopuli.xyz 9 points 2 weeks ago

As someone with an autoimmune disorder, I'm honestly not all that sold on whether that's a good tradeoff.

Yay, you're not acutely dying of cancer, but now your body is attacking your internal organs and depending on how shitty your luck is, you can eg. look forward to liver and/or kidney transplants (possibly more than once, too)

[–] Tattorack@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago

It's never lupus.

[–] yermaw@sh.itjust.works 4 points 2 weeks ago

Superbugs are gonna look like regular bugs.

[–] kinther@lemmy.world 4 points 2 weeks ago

Multiple Sclerosis comes to mind

[–] Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

This sounds like the intro plot to one of those zombie movies...

[–] ameancow@lemmy.world 8 points 2 weeks ago

Because Hollywood is so insanely bad at portraying science even remotely accurately, literally everything sounds like the plot to a zombie movie.

I'm not even kidding, I'm not in the biotech field and even I feel my eye twitch every time I see a movie with zombified lab animals smacking into the bars of their cages as the plucky heroes try to unravel what vile sins against nature those evil researchers uncovered in their hubris.

[–] OptimisticPessimist@lemmy.world 3 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Immune checkpoint inhibitors are already a relatively common therapy for several types of cancer.

[–] Taleya@aussie.zone 1 points 2 weeks ago

Yeah i've had RA since i was 12, that explaination of function just made my brain screech