Cuba already has some vaccines for cancer, it's not impossible.
Yeah and HPV vaccinations are older than those still.
But, I guess "some scientists have developed a vaccine to lower the risk of one specific cause of one specific type of cancer." is less attention grabbing than "X country has developed a cancer vaccine"
Is a cancer vaccine even possible as a concept? Would it even be classified as a vaccine since cancer isn't a virus?
Obviously creating preventative measures for cancer would be amazing but I figured that wasn't even a subject we were broaching since treating it is hard enough
Is a cancer vaccine even possible as a concept?
Yes. A recently-found example of cancer resistance is wolves in Chernobyl.
Would it even be classified as a vaccine since cancer isn't a virus?
Yes, and some oncovaccines are already approved.
I'm especially ignorant on cancer medicine, but I do know that Cuba has developed a vaccine that is supposed to prevent a type of lung cancer. My guess would be a similar sort of result here
There are some types of cancer vaccine, but from what I know they're usually given to people who already have cancer. A college classmate of mine told me he had a bladder cancer vaccine
Would it even be classified as a vaccine since cancer isn’t a virus?
Increasingly everything injected gets called that in popular media, it seems.
The article says he didn't specify what kinds of cancer he's talking about, or any exact timeline. You might be able to prevent a cancer, but all cancers seems pretty impossible, short of hypothetical nanobots that turn you into a disease-immune superhuman.
