New cancer vaccine to treat 15 types of disease now available on NHS
New cancer vaccine to treat 15 types of disease now available on NHS
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New cancer vaccine to treat 15 types of disease now available on NHS
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Could someone remind me the difference between a vaccine and treatment. For some reason I thought a vaccine was a preventative measure to keep from getting something - but this seems to be described as a treatment for when you’re diagnosed?
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You're correct. This is bad reporting.
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It's immunotherapy that prevents the cancers from deactivating the immune cells that would ordinarily kill the cancer cells. So it's like a traditional vaccine in that it causes changes to the immune system to better equip it to fight disease, but it's a pretty new methodology of accomplishing that.
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Am I screwed now because there’s no way my insurance would approve a preventative measure or am I screwed later if/when I am diagnosed and insurance won’t approve the treatment?
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You guys are getting diagnosed?!?
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