{"id":133270,"date":"2021-12-29T22:22:17","date_gmt":"2021-12-30T06:22:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/12\/personalized-skin-cancer-vaccine-is-made-from-tumor-cells"},"modified":"2021-12-29T22:22:17","modified_gmt":"2021-12-30T06:22:17","slug":"personalized-skin-cancer-vaccine-is-made-from-tumor-cells","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/12\/personalized-skin-cancer-vaccine-is-made-from-tumor-cells","title":{"rendered":"Personalized skin cancer vaccine is made from tumor cells"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/personalized-skin-cancer-vaccine-is-made-from-tumor-cells2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This year, an estimated 100,000 people in the U.S. will be diagnosed with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.freethink.com\/articles\/malignant-melanoma\">melanoma<\/a>, a rare but aggressive form of skin cancer \u2014 and even if they beat it, they\u2019ll be at a high risk of developing melanoma again.<\/p>\n<p>That might not always be the case, though, as a personalized skin cancer vaccine developed from patients\u2019 own tumor cells has shown promise in a very small trial, involving eight melanoma survivors.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe found evidence of everything we look for in a strong, sustained immune response,\u201d study co-leader Patrick A. Ott <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dana-farber.org\/newsroom\/news-releases\/2021\/personalized-vaccine-produces-long-lasting-anti-tumor-response-in-patients-with-melanoma--study-shows\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">said in a press release<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This year, an estimated 100,000 people in the U.S. will be diagnosed with melanoma, a rare but aggressive form of skin cancer \u2014 and even if they beat it, they\u2019ll be at a high risk of developing melanoma again. That might not always be the case, though, as a personalized skin cancer vaccine developed from [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":556,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-133270","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133270","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/556"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=133270"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133270\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=133270"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=133270"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=133270"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}