How Does a Personalized Cancer Vaccine Work?
Unlike a conventional vaccine that can be manufactured in the same form for millions of people, each dose of intismeran is made for one person based on the genetic characteristics of their cancer.
“The idea behind the vaccine is to take the specific tumor that is growing inside one specific patient, use DNA sequencing to understand the unique bits and pieces of that particular cancer, and create a vaccine based on that particular tumor that will trigger that person’s immune system to recognize the cancer as foreign and attack it,” says Pauline Funchain, MD, an oncologist and the associate director…
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