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Scottish Lass<p>Exclusive: Sarra Hoy on Finding Hope Amid Chris' Cancer Diagnosis - Lorraine <br>"...Sarra has also been diagnosed with multiple sclerosis. Yet despite this, in an incredibly moving interview, Sarra tells Lorraine about the small joys we can all find in our lives..."</p><p><a href="https://youtube.com/watch?v=gQAL0mPtwDM&amp;si=Q0zrhntfAuUJmwW-" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">youtube.com/watch?v=gQAL0mPtwD</span><span class="invisible">M&amp;si=Q0zrhntfAuUJmwW-</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/SarraHoy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SarraHoy</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/ChrisHoy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ChrisHoy</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Health" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Health</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Lorraine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Lorraine</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/MultipleSclerosis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MultipleSclerosis</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Cancer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Cancer</span></a></p>
Bandersnatch<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mstdn.social/@DemocracyMattersALot" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>DemocracyMattersALot</span></a></span> </p><p>Here's what I think. They want this <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/tech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>tech</span></a> abandoned "because" it is so promising.</p><p>If we have a cheap cure / <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/vaccine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>vaccine</span></a> for most <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/cancer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>cancer</span></a>, who loses the most?</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/BigPharma" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BigPharma</span></a>, that's who.</p><p>But if it's abandoned &amp; quietly repackaged &amp; sold to Big Pharma....</p>
RealJournalism<p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Covid19" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Covid19</span></a> Vaccines Have Paved the Way for <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Cancer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Cancer</span></a> Vaccines <a href="https://www.wired.com/story/wired-health-lennard-lee-cancer-vaccines/?utm_source=firefox-newtab-en-us" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">wired.com/story/wired-health-l</span><span class="invisible">ennard-lee-cancer-vaccines/?utm_source=firefox-newtab-en-us</span></a></p>
Ruth Mottram<p>The really interesting thing in this piece about how drinking alcohol causes cancer is just how much the scientists and writer don't want it to be true... </p><p><a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/IdontWantToBelieve" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>IdontWantToBelieve</span></a> <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/Cancer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Cancer</span></a> <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/alcohol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>alcohol</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-00729-5" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">nature.com/articles/d41586-025</span><span class="invisible">-00729-5</span></a></p>
Calishat<p><a href="https://researchbuzz.masto.host/tags/cancer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>cancer</span></a> <a href="https://researchbuzz.masto.host/tags/oncology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>oncology</span></a> <a href="https://researchbuzz.masto.host/tags/medicine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>medicine</span></a> <a href="https://researchbuzz.masto.host/tags/science" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>science</span></a> <a href="https://researchbuzz.masto.host/tags/research" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>research</span></a> <a href="https://researchbuzz.masto.host/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AI</span></a> <br> <br>'Researchers at King’s have launched a first-of-its-kind dashboard that collates and drills down into more than a thousand AI and cancer studies, providing a wide-ranging overview of AI’s increasingly important role in tackling the disease.'</p><p><a href="https://www.kcl.ac.uk/news/launch-of-first-online-dashboard-for-ai-and-cancer-papers-to-accelerate-ai-adoption-in-the-clinic" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">kcl.ac.uk/news/launch-of-first</span><span class="invisible">-online-dashboard-for-ai-and-cancer-papers-to-accelerate-ai-adoption-in-the-clinic</span></a></p>
Wisdom in Space<p>To the dumb question 'Why me?' the cosmos barely bothers to return the reply: Why not?<br> -- Christopher Hitchens (Vanity Fair Article on His Cancer Diagnosis)</p><p>⬆ <a href="https://c.im/tags/Wisdom" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Wisdom</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Quotes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Quotes</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/ChristopherHitchens" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ChristopherHitchens</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Cancer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Cancer</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Fate" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Fate</span></a></p><p>⬇ <a href="https://c.im/tags/Photography" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Photography</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Panorama" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Panorama</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Panopainting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Panopainting</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Books" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Books</span></a></p>
Greengordon<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.world/@crackedshamrock" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>crackedshamrock</span></a></span> </p><p>That sucks. <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@augieray" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>augieray</span></a></span> has a big database of articles and may be able to help.</p><p>"Does anyone remember reading articles/posts saying that <a href="https://spore.social/tags/COVID" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>COVID</span></a> would cause <a href="https://spore.social/tags/Parkinson" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Parkinson</span></a>'s and <a href="https://spore.social/tags/cancer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>cancer</span></a> in the years after infection? B/c two years after my four bouts, it now appears I have both Parkinson's and cancer. Wish I could find just one such article now."</p><p><a href="https://spore.social/tags/CovidIsNotOver" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CovidIsNotOver</span></a></p>
Cracked Shamrock<p>Does anyone remember reading articles/posts saying that <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/COVID" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>COVID</span></a> would cause <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/Parkinson" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Parkinson</span></a>'s and <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/cancer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>cancer</span></a> in the years after infection? B/c two years after my four bouts, it now appears I have both Parkinson's and cancer. Wish I could find just one such article now.</p>
Ned Yeung<p>The mRNA technology behind coronavirus vaccines is now being used to create bespoke vaccines for cancer patients.</p><p>"Cancer vaccines weren’t a proper field of research before the pandemic. There was nothing. Apart from one exception, pretty much every clinical trial had failed. With the pandemic, however, we proved that mRNA vaccines were possible.</p><p>mRNA cancer vaccines work by giving the body instructions to make a harmless piece of a cancer-related protein. This trains the immune system to recognize and attack cancer cells carrying that protein. Think of it like a training manual for security guards. The vaccine gives the immune system a guide on what cancer looks like, so it knows exactly who to watch for and remove.</p><p>Going from mRNA Covid vaccines to mRNA cancer vaccines is straightforward: same fridges, same protocol, same drug, just a different patient.</p><p>In the current trials, we do a biopsy of the patient, sequence the tissue, send it to the pharmaceutical company, and they design a personalized vaccine that’s bespoke to that patient’s cancer. That vaccine is not suitable for anyone else. It’s like science fiction.</p><p>The UK was ready. We had fridges and we had world-class manufacturing and research facilities. During the pandemic, we had proven we could open and deliver clinical trials fast. Also, the UK had established a genomic global lead with Genomics England and the 100,000 Genome Project. All doctors and nurses in this country are trained in genomics.</p><p>So the UK government signed two partnerships: one with BioNTech to provide 10,000 patients with access to personalized cancer treatments by 2030, and a 10-year investment with Moderna in an innovation and technology center with capacity to produce up to 250 million vaccines. The stars were aligned.</p><p>For many years, we believed that research is inherently slow. It used to take 20 years to get a drug to market. Most cancer patients, unfortunately, will succumb by the time a drug gets to market. We showed the world that it could be done in a year if you modernize your process, run parts of the process in parallel, and use digital tools.</p><p>We have a trial to stop skin cancer coming back after you cut it out. It’s now completed. We over-recruited again, just like every single one of the trials that we ran, and the trial finished one year ahead of schedule. That’s completely unheard of in cancer trials because they normally run over-long.</p><p>What will happen now is that, over the next six to 12 months, we will monitor the people in the trial and work out if there’s a difference between the people who took the cancer vaccine and the ones who didn’t. We’re hoping to have results by the end of the year or beginning of 2026. If it’s successful, we will have invented the first approved personalized mRNA vaccine, within only five years of the first licensed mRNA vaccine for Covid. That’s pretty impressive."</p><p>- Dr. Lennard Lee, UK National Health Service oncologist and medical director at the Ellison Institute of Technology in Oxford</p><p><a href="https://www.wired.com/story/wired-health-lennard-lee-cancer-vaccines/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">wired.com/story/wired-health-l</span><span class="invisible">ennard-lee-cancer-vaccines/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://beige.party/tags/cancer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>cancer</span></a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/vaccination" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>vaccination</span></a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/Science" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Science</span></a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/COVID" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>COVID</span></a></p>
Gina Intheburg 🇺🇦 🌻 🥥🌴<p>A Navy vet was given ‘weeks to live’ in 2020. Now his cancer treatment is at risk.</p><p>Navy veteran Kyle Lewis, who was diagnosed with Stage 4 <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/cancer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>cancer</span></a> in 2020, says federal research cuts means he can no longer access his experimental cancer treatment, which has been saving his life<br><a href="https://taskandpurpose.com/military-life/navy-veteran-cancer-treatment-federal-cuts/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">taskandpurpose.com/military-li</span><span class="invisible">fe/navy-veteran-cancer-treatment-federal-cuts/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/ClinicalTrials" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ClinicalTrials</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/Healthcare" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Healthcare</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/HHS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>HHS</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/RFKjr" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RFKjr</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/TrumpFreeze" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TrumpFreeze</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/MuskFreeze" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MuskFreeze</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/Vets" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Vets</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/Veterans" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Veterans</span></a></p>