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Andrei Kaprin, director of the Radiology Medical Research Center of the Russian Health Ministry, announced the creation of a cancer vaccine on the radio on Wednesday.
Russia’s Health Ministry said on Tuesday that we have succeeded in making a cancer vaccine. This information was given on radio by Andrei Kaprin, director of the Radiology Medical Research Center of the Russian Health Ministry. According to Russian news agency TASS, this vaccine will be administered free of cost to Russian citizens from next year.
Director Andrei told that Russia has developed its own mRNA vaccine against cancer. This discovery of Russia is being considered as the biggest discovery of the century. Clinical trials of the vaccine have shown that it helps prevent tumor growth.
Earlier this year, Russian President Vladimir Putin had said that Russia is very close to making a cancer vaccine.
What is mRNA vaccine? mRNA or messenger RNA is a small part of the human genetic code, which makes proteins in our cells. It can also be understood in simple language that when a virus or bacteria attacks our body, mRNA technology sends a message to our cells to make proteins to fight that virus or bacteria.
With this, our immune system gets the essential proteins it needs and antibodies are formed in our body. Its biggest advantage is that it can make the vaccine more quickly than the conventional vaccine. Along with this, the immunity of the body also gets strengthened. This is the first cancer vaccine based on mRNA technology.
Earlier, Covid-19 vaccines have been made based on this technology.
Vaccine is given not before but after cancer. Cancer specialist MD Mauri Markman says that making a cancer vaccine is biologically impossible. There can be no vaccine for cancer because cancer is not a disease. It is the result of thousands of different conditions in the body.
Nevertheless, vaccines play an important role in the prevention of some cancers. These vaccines are essential tools in protecting cancer patients during treatment. Because the risk of other diseases increases for a cancer patient during treatment.
The special thing about cancer vaccine is that it is never given before cancer occurs, rather it is given to those people who have cancer tumors. This vaccine helps our immune system recognize what cancer cells look like.
Why is it difficult to make a cancer vaccine?
- Cancer cells are made from molecules that suppress immune cells. Even if a vaccine activates immune cells, those immune cells may not be able to enter the tumor.
- Cancer cells are like normal cells and because of this the immune system does not find them as dangerous. This makes it difficult for the immune system to figure out what to attack.
- If cancer antigen is present on both normal and abnormal cells, then the vaccine starts attacking both. This causes great harm to the body.
- Sometimes the cancer tumor becomes so big that the immune system is unable to fight it. The immune system of some people is very weak, due to which many people are not able to recover even after getting the vaccine.
In India, more women than men suffer from cancer 14.13 lakh new cases of cancer were reported in India in 2022. Of these, cancer was found in 7.22 lakh women, while 6.91 lakh men. In 2022, 9.16 lakh patients died of cancer.
Cancer patients will increase by 12% in India in 5 years The Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) estimates that cancer patients will increase at the rate of 12% in the country in 5 years, but the biggest challenge is falling victim to cancer at an early age. According to a research published in Nature Journal, one of the biggest causes of cancer at an early age is our lifestyle.
According to data from the Global Cancer Observatory, breast, prostate and thyroid cancers are most common before the age of 50. The highest number of cases of breast, mouth, uterus and lung cancer are being reported in India.
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