mRNA vaccines as treatment for pancreatic cancer
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Wait as a treatment or as a preventative measure? It’s not a vaccine if it’s taken as a treatment. Or are all mRNA therapies going to be referred to as a vaccine, now?
The Brad
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Wait as a treatment or as a preventative measure? It’s not a vaccine if it’s taken as a treatment. Or are all mRNA therapies going to be referred to as a vaccine, now?
@LuFins-Dad said in mRNA vaccines as treatment for pancreatic cancer:
Wait as a treatment or as a preventative measure? It’s not a vaccine if it’s taken as a treatment. Or are all mRNA therapies going to be referred to as a vaccine, now?
It's a treatment but functionally identical in to an mRNA vaccine in that they train the immune system to recognize a certain pathogen. It just so happens that the pathogen is present elsewhere in the body at the time.
To your second question, no. mRNA therapies that don't train the immune system are not referred to as vaccines. Examples are mRNA editing (see Wave Therapeutics' WVE-006 for one I'm involved with) or siRNA (see Takeda's TAK-999, same) which knock out messenger RNA. No one refers to these as vaccines.
