The Astonishing Way COVID Could Actually Help Us Cure Cancer

[JoeOtterbein]

The Daily Beast

A momentous breakthrough in the fight against cancer may be on the horizon—and the pandemic nightmare helped scientists get there.

David Axe
Published Jan. 01, 2023 9:39PM ET

The novel coronavirus could help us cure cancer. Well, certain cancers.

The COVID pandemic gave the pharmaceutical industry the push it needed to finally finish developing messenger-RNA technology so that companies such as Moderna and Pfizer could use the tech for its COVID vaccines.

Now the pharmaceutical industry is using the same mRNA platforms for cancer vaccines. Dozens of these new vaccines are in development—and experts say there’s a chance they’ll drive the biggest decrease in cancer mortality in decades.

It’s worth noting a key difference between mRNA shots for COVID versus mRNA shots for cancer. MRNA vaccines prevent COVID. They won’t prevent cancer. Instead, they’ll treat cancer after you’ve caught it. In that sense, “vaccine”—even though it’s the accepted term—is something of a misnomer when it comes to mRNA applications for cancer. “Therapy” might be a better term.

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[Miguelito Loveless]

1. Anyone who was an anti-vaxxer

Should NEVER receive this treatment. You made your anti-science stupidity, now own it.

[Mr.Bill]

2. Don't worry,

they'll refuse it. I guarantee it.

[Just A Box Of Rain]

4. Only some people

are really people.

[applegrove]

3. And they are planning to use mRNA vaccines for malaria and HIV.

[WestMichRad]

5. The Daily Beast article is factually incorrect on one point.

mRNA vaccines do not prevent covid (or acquire in a Covid infection). Rather, they prime one’s immune system so that it will recognize the presence of a covid infection, and allow one’s immune system to get s head start on fighting the infection.

I wonder if something similar is at play for using this tactic to fight cancer… priming the immune system so it can help fight the cancer “infection.”