'Exciting' needle-free skin cancer vaccine trial set to launch on NHS

'Exciting' needle-free skin cancer vaccine trial set to launch on NHS

The vaccine aims to boost the immune system to prevent melanoma returning.

Skin cancer patients given fast-tracked access to ‘revolutionary’ cancer vaccine trial on NHS - Your Harlow

PATIENTS with advanced skin cancer in England are set to be fast-tracked into trials of a new cancer vaccine, following the expansion of a world-leading NHS programme. The needle-free injection, which is given for up to 2 years, works by boosting the immune system’s response and helping it recognise, attack and ‘remember’ cancer cells, to help stop the disease returning. The NHS has partnered with UK life-sciences company Scancell to widen acces…

NHS England » Skin cancer patients given fast-tracked access to ‘revolutionary’ cancer vaccine trial on NHS

Patients with advanced skin cancer in England are set to be fast-tracked into trials of a new cancer vaccine, following the expansion of a world-leading NHS programme. The needle-free injection, which is given for up to 2 years, works by boosting the immune system’s response and helping it recognise, attack and ‘remember’ cancer cells, to […]