Positive results from Phase 2 of this cancer treatment trial showed a reduced risk of death and recurrence in patients. What is the Moderna melanoma vaccine? What is Keytruda? Is there a vaccine for cancer?
Cancer patients Stephanie Gangi, William Morrison and Anna Bochenski were given just years to live before they received a last resort, experimental vaccine made by Mount Sinai in New York.
A combination of immune stimulants and immunotherapy that transforms tumors into cancer vaccine-producing factories has shown remarkable promise in a phase 1/2 trial, although only in 30% of patients.