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i know it's a pipe dream but if i live to see the eradication of cancer i will truly die happy
Aaaannnd it’s gone
Anti-vaxxers: hold my beer.
Well, this is cancer and not some virus so at least they'll only slowly kill themselves after suffering, if they were to have to deal with this. It's not great, but silver linings, I guess?
They're calling it a vaccine. We all know what anti-vaxxers will do when they hear the words vaccines.
is this the kind of thing we will never hear about anymore, or is it legit?
"could wipe the disease out"
..."but won't, because thanks to Capitalism it will be non-affordable."
Yes, and probably destroy your uterus.
Let's fucking goooo! People are just so clever. This is amazing.
The billions that got pumped into vaxine research... The RNA method is going to or has received a nobel prize right? Before this we had no good way (or as safe) to pre-train the immune system to "if you see this (virus, etc.) again, raise the alarms". Now we do.
Katalin Karikó and Drew Weissman won the 2023 Nobel Prize in Medicine for their work on RNA leading to the COVID-19 vaccines (from Moderna and Pfizer)
This is some pretty cool research but I already can't wait to see the 100k per vaccine price in the USA lmao.
While the "full-blown timeline" for the vaccine being approved "might be many years away" the visible impact could be sooner.
Professor Ahmed added that, through clinical trials, he would hope to start seeing the vaccine's impact "in four or five years on the healthy population".
This is really exciting. I wonder if vaccines could be developed for other cancers using a similar technique?
They will establish which proteins on the surface of early-stage ovarian cancer cells are best recognised by the immune system and how effectively the vaccine kills models of the disease in a lab.
Sounds like it would to me. Between this and mRNA vaccines, there's a lot of promise out there.
mRNA research exploded during the pandemic. Several cancer vaccines for various cancers are being developed right now!!!
This is great news. Yet, sadly, I am drawn to wondering who will complain about this the loudest. Will it be misogynists who say "they're not helping men with their cancer", or anti-vaxxers saying "this vaccine will actually CAUSE cancer"?
What about people who are both misogynist and anti-vaccine?
Well at least ovarian cancer isn’t airborne and contagious like covid. So antivaxxers can avoid it all they want, it’s their choice if they want to die from a disease that they could’ve prevented.
Fuck em, essentially. Rather have cancer than a vaccine, that's their choice. It's not until it's a required vaccine that it makes much difference.
What about people who are both misogynist and anti-vaccine?
$10 says Alex Jones and his troglodyte cult following are gonna have a field day 😮💨
Alex is a little busy losing everything he owns right now.
He'll multitask
Sure. He'll also drink large quantities of liquor and cry.
Absolutely.
They don't get a vaccine. More for the sane people.
Yeah, I knew it. Here come the sad sacks with the useless "this is good news, but......"
I'm an academic working to analyse hate speech, with a particular focus on online misogyny. As bigotry is illogical, common features of communications of that hatred is stuff that is wholly made up. This include the idea that men are being short-changed by a medical industry which prioritise female health. This is factually untrue, in terms of gender differences in health outcomes.
If knowing about the truth makes me a 'sad sack', fine. Maybe being correct and 'sad' is more important than being incorrect yet happy.
Ok, good point. Yet, sadly, children die of cancer.
And, sadly, sometimes parents refuse the vaccine that would help.
Good point. Yet, sadly, puppies sometimes get cancer.
It’s a good thing we invented this straw person to have this whole discussion artificially when literally no one else was bringing it up. If we can’t find any monsters I guess we’ll invent them and do it anyway. 🙄
Oh you sweet summer child. I wish I could live in your brain.
They undoubtedly exist, but we shouldn't worry about what some troglodytic moron has to say about the issue.
It’s a good thing we invented this straw person
So, neither misogynists nor anti-vaxxers exist?
I can find you evidence of men complaining about free period products. I am certain there will be men complaining that female cancers are getting cures, and not male ones.
They exist, are they here on Lemmy without artificially or “ironically” sharing their awesome hot takes? The world will never know.
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