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Efficacy shown for new melanoma therapeutic vaccine
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Efficacy shown for new melanoma therapeutic vaccine

by Physician’s Briefing Staff In a recent trial, a new melanoma vaccine, mRNA-4157 (V940), when taken in combination with Keytruda (pembrolizumab), was found to be effective in battling the deadly skin cancer. People with advanced melanomas who received the vaccine plus Merck’s cancer drug Keytruda were 49 percent less likely to die or have their...

New ovarian cancer drug could give women years of life in the form of a ‘therapeutic’ vaccine
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New ovarian cancer drug could give women years of life in the form of a ‘therapeutic’ vaccine

By STEPHEN ADAMS MEDICAL EDITOR FOR THE MAIL ON SUNDAY PUBLISHED: 17:03 EST, 13 February 2021 | UPDATED: 17:16 EST, 13 February 2021 Women who have ovarian cancer are to receive a new vaccine that experts hope could give them years of extra life. Survival rates for the disease, which claims more than 4,000 lives a year in Britain, are low...