Adding Moderna’s mRNA cancer vaccine to a standard melanoma treatment dramatically reduces the risk of death or recurrence.
  • TheMurphy@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    1 year ago

    This is amazing news for countries with free healthcare! Even though the vaccine is expensive, it’s nowhere as expensive as the care a cancer patient needs today.

    Plus you can send a healthy individual back to their families and into society again.

    • DeuxChevaux@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      1 year ago

      The shareholders of the pharma-industry will not be happy. You have to manage a disease, not heal it; that would be detrimental for the balance sheet.

      And unhappy shareholders of big pharma is definitely not what we want; if they are happy, we will be happy.

      • GardeningSadhu@lemm.eeEnglish
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        1 year ago

        I’m very anti-pharma myself (depression is not a chemical imbalance, and pills can’t solve it. Changing lifestyle factors can.) but if your statement were true they wouldn’t have made this vaccine in the first place.