The following report is by CNBC:
The vaccine could win regulatory approvals and launch in some countries as early as 2025, Moderna CEO Stephane Bancel said on CNBC’s “Squawk Box” on Thursday.
Shares of Moderna jumped more than 10% in morning trading Thursday following the data release, while Merck’s stock dipped slightly.
The combination specifically slashed the risk of death or recurrence of the cancer, known as melanoma, by 49% in patients in later stages of the disease compared to those who received Keytruda alone after three years. The cancer vaccine in combination with Keytruda also reduced the risk of melanoma spreading to other parts of the body by 62%.
Those results build on midstage trial data the companies released earlier this year, which showed the efficacy of the combination in the same patients over a shorter period. After around two years, the vaccine and Keytruda cut the risk of death or relapse by 44% in melanoma patients, and reduced the risk of the cancer spreading in the body by 65%, according to the earlier trial data.
The most common side effects of the vaccine were fatigue, injection site pain and chills, according to Thursday’s data.
The new results suggest that the cancer shot used with the immunotherapy continues to provide meaningful health benefits to melanoma patients after they stay on the treatment for a longer period of time.
Bancel said he is eager to see four and five-year data on the vaccine because “the melanoma curve is flattening, people are not dying anymore” after going through the treatment.
The two drugmakers are studying the combination as a treatment for late-stage melanoma in a phase-three trial, which began in July. Bancel also said the companies are studying the vaccine in patients at earlier stages of melanoma.
“We believe that the earlier you go in disease, the stronger the immune system of a patient is, meaning our individualized treatment should work even better,” Bancel said.
The vaccine, which uses the same mRNA technology as Moderna’s Covid vaccine, is custom-built based on an analysis of a patient’s tumors after surgical removal. The shot is designed to train the immune system to recognize and attack specific mutations in cancer cells.
Merck’s Keytruda, which is approved to treat melanoma and other cancers, belongs to a class of widely used immunotherapies that are designed to disable a certain protein that helps cancer evade the immune system.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration gave breakthrough therapy designation to the cancer vaccine for the treatment of melanoma in February, which is intended to speed up the development and review of treatments for serious and life-threatening diseases.
Moderna and Merck are also testing the vaccine with Keytruda against other tumor types. On Monday, the drugmakers started a late-stage trial on the combination as a treatment for non-small cell lung cancer.
Melanoma is responsible for the large majority of skin cancer deaths, according to the American Cancer Society. The rate of melanoma has increased rapidly over the past few decades, according to the organization.
About 100,000 people will be diagnosed with melanoma in the U.S. this year and nearly 8,000 people are expected to die from the disease, according to the American Cancer Society.
AUTHOR COMMENTARY
Oh great, just what we needed. (Sarcasm).
We all of course know what the Covid mRNA shots have done and are doing, so one can imagine what this’ll do to people… MRNA is becoming standard operating procedure moving forward for all vaccines and many more treatments to come.
Needless to say, stay away from their “cures.”
The law of the wise is a fountain of life, to depart from the snares of death.
Proverbs 13:14
[7] Who goeth a warfare any time at his own charges? who planteth a vineyard, and eateth not of the fruit thereof? or who feedeth a flock, and eateth not of the milk of the flock? [8] Say I these things as a man? or saith not the law the same also? [9] For it is written in the law of Moses, Thou shalt not muzzle the mouth of the ox that treadeth out the corn. Doth God take care for oxen? [10] Or saith he it altogether for our sakes? For our sakes, no doubt, this is written: that he that ploweth should plow in hope; and that he that thresheth in hope should be partaker of his hope. (1 Corinthians 9:7-10).
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I came across some things in the past saying that the MRNA Covid vaccines are causing turbo cancers in some people who took the shots, didn’t really dig into this yet. Now they come up with shots that “cure” cancer?
I know someone who’s sister had cancer, it was in remission at state I, she took the jabs and it shot back up to stage IV cancer and now she’s dead.
Maybe there’s something to the turbo cancers after all. Either way, cancers, heart disease or cytokine storm, the vaccines are a death sentence.
Another witches brew from the demonic world of greed. Well I don’t have skin cancer, so no need for this shot, which I wouldn’t take if I did have it. How do they expect us to believe a word they say anymore? But then there are those who are VERY gullible and never learn anything and jump right back into the the idiot’s pot whenever some Big Pharma guy says something, they will stand in line for it. Ugh.