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Moderna's mRNA Skin Cancer Vaccine Shows Durability for 3 Years

Discussion in 'Too Hot for Swamp Gas' started by ncargat1, Dec 14, 2023.

  1. AgingGator

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    To respond to GratefulGator; I have had over two dozen “removals” for basal and squamous. Had one melanoma. My wife, mother, and sister are all survivors. I would love to have a vaccine available for this.

    That said, my father had a real bad negative reaction to Keytruda. For many people it’s a lifesaver, for some others it’s a death sentence. I don’t think I have to tell you what it was for him. I don’t have issues with development and testing. I do have issues with self proclaimed experts denigrating those who are leery.
     
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  2. danmanne65

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    Nobody is advocating forcing people to take untested treatments. The antivax morons are dangerous though. How many people who listened to them aren’t alive now. Darwin Award winners all.
     
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  3. ncargat1

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    I am sorry to hear that. The immunomodulators like Keytruda were also a great scientific advancements, but they have not been perfected by a long shot. More than a few have died from using the drug when it turned the immune system against healthy organs.

    I "denigrate" people who spout anti-science lies (eg. mRNA vaccine is re-writing people's DNA). People concerned over legitimate side effects (Eg. Keytruda - in rare cases turns the immune system against health organs and is potentially deadly). To me, there is a huge difference in those two groups of people.
     
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  4. AgingGator

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    You’re very lucky that your behind a keyboard.
     
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  5. AgingGator

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    I respect that. Unfortunately, most are not as discerning of those groups of people.
     
  6. Tjgators

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    Curious what percentage of the population is getting the most recent Fall booster? My guess is the answer will give you an idea of how the population looks at vaccines today.
     
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  7. danmanne65

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    Excuse me? lol
     
  8. danmanne65

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    I don’t know. I got mine and a flu shot and the shingles vaccine. Had a friend get shingles and it seemed to age him. There is a new vax for babies and old people. It wasn’t available when I got my shots. Don’t know if they didn’t have them or it wasn’t out yet.

    I have a one year old grandson I will be getting that shot soon.
     
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  9. l_boy

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    My dad has had every skin cancer in the book including melanoma about 30 years ago (now my age). He is still plugging away but his skin is so ragged if it gets a cut it takes a really long time to heal.

    I’ve been lucky so far, nothing cancerous removed…yet, but check every year.
     
  10. G8trGr8t

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    they will attack it, right up until they or one of their loved ones need it
     
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  11. G8trGr8t

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    second for Mohs. three time so far for me. my scottish/irish skin wasn't meant for the sun but grew up working and playing outside in florida. a shirt was something to wipe the sweat off your face and a couple of sunburns was the way to prevent the latter ones. now we have the palest kids in florida
     
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  12. tilly

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    I love the hand wringing about people being against this. Two pages in and no one is against it.

    Great topic and really good news.
     
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  13. l_boy

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    Glad no one is against it, yet, but it is kind of odd how MNRA vax against cancer is OK but against Covid not so much.
     
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  14. Spurffelbow833

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    People are eventually going to be wasting so much of their time and money on worrying about what might happen to them, they won't be bothered with living any more. What good is living to be 100 years old if 20 of those years are crossed off your calendar by doctor's appointments and elective hospital admissions? Even more because you give up days to have your kids jabbed and genetically altered, too.
     
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  15. tampagtr

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    Somewhat relatedly, this partial (full paywalled) substack piece from Scott Cunningham states that within a year, they will likely be Federal approval of psychedelics, MDMA, for PTSD and later other conditions

    A new drug reform has begun
     
  16. BigCypressGator1981

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    I was actually just thinking about how skin cancer won’t be nearly as much of an issue for millennials and younger generations because they spend so little time outdoors comparatively.
     
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    Sorry, the public perception of MRNA to help fight cancer vs a coronavirus is not in the same universe.
     
  18. exiledgator

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    How so? People will now be willing to risk death, be "genetically altered", have microchips inserted in them, become infertile, have fetal cells injected in them, or have the shot actually give you cancer?
     
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  19. Spurffelbow833

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    All of the above if it's that or go to prison, starve, or get shot.
     
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