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Covid Vaccines Have Paved the Way for Cancer Vaccines


The mRNA technology behind coronavirus vaccines is now being used to create bespoke vaccines for cancer patients.

Lennard Lee, a UK National Health Service oncologist and medical director at the Ellison Institute of Technology in Oxford, calls himself just a “simple doctor,” but he’s anything but. He also delivered UK research that showed lateral flow testing was effective in identifying the most infectious Covid patients. mRNA cancer vaccines work by giving the body instructions to make a harmless piece of a cancer-related protein.

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