• etchinghillside@reddthat.com
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    14 hours ago

    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?

    • exasperation@lemm.ee
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      15 minutes ago

      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.

  • voicesarefree@lemmy.world
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    17 hours ago

    Do they not yet know the relative effectiveness of this treatment? It wasn’t mentioned or I missed it.

    It’s great that it’s faster to administer, really, but if the outcomes are not as good…