Cancer vaccines

Hi court It looks like it’s only just being rolled out but could be promising?

https://www.england.nhs.uk/2024/05/thousands-of-nhs-patients-to-access-trials-of-personalised-cancer-vaccines/

Hope you’re enjoying your hols

Karen x

there are quite a few articles this morning- sounds very exciting but there is not lots of information about how to access yet etc and it sounds like it's rolling out in time- if you google there are trusts who are saying they are signed up and that seems to be spread around the UK- everything crossed

https://www.theguardian.com/science/article/2024/may/31/nhs-patients-in-england-to-be-offered-trials-for-world-first-cancer-vaccine

Enjoy your holiday!

I have read many post about the vaccine as it’s my oncologist that has been working with the hospital in Australia to develop a vaccine. From what I have read, the vaccine could be rolled out within 2 years if the trials are successful. 

that would be amazing wouldn't it, I mean obviously the sooner the better for everyone- I find it so exciting and nerve wracking I can only imagine what it must be like for the people actually working on the trials and science. Where do you have your treatment? I read your story- so glad you're doing well

Royal Surrey cancer centre, previously known as St Luke’s Guildford. They often publish articles of the fantastic work that  Dr Dhillon does. 

Hi Rac, my husband is at Royal Surrey too, different oncologist. When this came out earlier in the year they mentioned Royal Surrey where doing the trials for stage 1 or 2, I do hope they can fast track this like the covid vaccine to give us all hope of a cure for all cancers. Nancy x

My husband thought he saw an article saying it was for a selected cell type at the moment . But we can’t find it . Has anyone found out about cell type ? Or is it for all cell types ?

Court 

I asked cancer scientist daughter who didn't think that it was cell type specific. They take a small sample of the tumour, sequence it to look for particular mutations, then create the vaccine which will seek out those mutations and destroy them. That was the simplified version, sure it's far more complicated than that!

There was an article I saw yesterday concerning a new lung cancer tablet, lorlatinib, which is specifically for non-small cell lung cancer which seems relatively rare.

Yes sounds very promising!!

oh yes I've read about that- I'm from Surrey originally so very happy to hear of them representing. The vaccines are so exciting- hopefully they can work for people at later stages too