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Russia says it has developed its own cancer drug, to be distributed for free
Russia’s Health Ministry claims that it has developed a vaccine against cancer which will be given to patients for free. Andrey Kaprin, head of the health ministry’s Radiology Medical Research Center, said the shot would launch in early 2025, according to state media. The vaccine will apparently be used to treat cancer patients, not given to the general public to prevent tumors from forming.
This shot will be launched in early 2025 to treat cancer patients
Russia says it has developed a vaccine against cancer that will be given to patients for free. The shot will be launched in early 2025 to treat cancer patients, not cancer patients, according to state-run media reports. General public to prevent tumors By becoming in the first place.
“Russia has developed its own mRNA vaccine against cancer; it will be distributed to patients free“Andrey Kaprin, general director of the Radiology Medical Research Center of the Russian Health Ministry, told Radio Rossiya, quoted by Russian news agency TASS.
Previous observations by Russian government scientists suggest each shot is personalized to the individual patient, similar to cancer vaccines developed in the West. However, there is no clarity on which cancers the vaccine is designed to treat, how effective it is, or how Russia plans to implement it.
Even the name of the vaccine has not been revealed yet.
“Preclinical trials of the vaccine have shown that it suppresses tumor growth and possible metastases,” Alexander Ginsberg, director of the Gamaleya National Research Center for Epidemiology and Microbiology, told TASS. First, Russian President Vladimir Putin Said in televised comments that “We are very close to the creation of so-called cancer vaccines and new generation immunomodulatory drugs.”
Cancer cases are increasing in Russia
According to local news reports, cancer cases are on the rise across the country, with more than 6,35,000 cases reported in 2022.
Colon, breast, and lung cancers are believed to be the most common forms of fatal disease in the country, caused by gene mutations that can be inherited, developing over time, or exposure to cigarette smoke or alcohol. This may be due to coming in contact with things like.
Russia claims AI can develop cancer in an hour
Ginsburg said at a press conference that the use of artificial neural networks could reduce the computing time required to create personalized cancer vaccines, currently a lengthy process, to less than an hour.
“Now it takes quite a long time to make (personalized vaccines) because the calculation of a vaccine, or customized mRNA, uses matrix methods in mathematical terms. We have involved the Ivannikov Institute, which will rely on AI to do this mathematics , namely neural network computing, where these processes should take about half an hour to an hour,” Russia’s vaccine chief said.
Role of cancer vaccine in cancer management
The idea behind treatment vaccines is that cancer cells contain substances called tumor-associated antigens that are not present in normal cells or, if present, at low levels.
Treatment vaccines can help the immune system recognize and respond to these antigens and destroy the cancer cells containing them.
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