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minus-squareHalosheep@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·11 months agoI see this often, but cancer isn’t caused by a viral infection. Are there vaccines that exist to prevent non-viral related diseases?
minus-squareHalfSalesman@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·edit-211 months agoVaccines could theoretically be used to train the immune system to essentially attack cancer cells in much the same way we already use immunotherapy. Though as far as I understand it, we have yet to fully develope one.
minus-squarenull_dot@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·11 months agoThat’s not actually true. There’s a bunch of viruses that can cause cancer: https://www.cancer.org/cancer/risk-prevention/infections/infections-that-can-lead-to-cancer/viruses.html
minus-squareHalosheep@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·11 months agoSo we’d be vaccinating those infections, not cancer itself
minus-squaredual_sport_dork 🐧🗡️@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·11 months agoSome of them can be. HPV is the typical cause of cervical cancer, which is the one I can think of off the top of my head.
I see this often, but cancer isn’t caused by a viral infection. Are there vaccines that exist to prevent non-viral related diseases?
Vaccines could theoretically be used to train the immune system to essentially attack cancer cells in much the same way we already use immunotherapy. Though as far as I understand it, we have yet to fully develope one.
That’s not actually true. There’s a bunch of viruses that can cause cancer:
https://www.cancer.org/cancer/risk-prevention/infections/infections-that-can-lead-to-cancer/viruses.html
So we’d be vaccinating those infections, not cancer itself
Some of them can be. HPV is the typical cause of cervical cancer, which is the one I can think of off the top of my head.