Cancers: Covid-19 Rna Vaccines Boosted the Effectiveness of Immunotherapy

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Messenger RNA-based Covid-19 vaccines could boost cancer defences and improve the survival of patients with lung tumours or melanoma, according to a retrospective study published in "Nature". But the methodology of this work is contested.

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The Covid-19 messenger RNA vaccines, which saved 2.5 million lives around the world during the pandemic, could also stimulate the immune system, helping to fight cancer. This is the conclusion, as unexpected as it is significant, of a new study published in Nature magazine. In 2016, our team, led by oncologist pediatrician Elias Sayour, developed messenger RNA vaccines (mRNA) to try to treat patients with brain tumours. During this work, we disc…