Posted on 08/19/2026 5:13:57 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Northwestern University economist Chuck Manski studies decision-making amid uncertainty. That prepared him better than many other cancer patients to decide whether to stay on an immunotherapy treatment that was making him very ill.
For six months in 2022, Manski received monthly infusions of nivolumab to fight advanced melanoma. The drug ruined his thyroid gland, he said, requiring him to go on a special medication for the rest of his life, and caused severe dryness in his eyes, lips, and mouth. The Food and Drug Administration’s protocol for the drug called for an entire year of treatment, but Manski said his oncologist couldn’t explain why. It’s FDA-approved, “so that’s what we use,” she said.
By that point, Manski showed no cancer signs or symptoms, and after reading a lot of medical journal articles, he concluded that the intense side effects probably meant the treatment had done about all it could do.
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“Moderna and Merck say mRNA cancer vaccine succeeded in late-stage melanoma trial”
https://www.statnews.com/2026/08/19/mrna-cancer-vaccine-trial-melanoma-merck-moderna/
A personalized mRNA cancer vaccine, added to an existing treatment, slowed the return of melanoma and its spread to other parts of the body in a late-stage clinical trial, the drugmakers Merck and Moderna announced Wednesday, results that could herald a new, powerful approach in oncology.
So-called “neoantigen” vaccines have long been seen as having potential as cancer treatments, but this is the first randomized Phase 3 clinical trial aimed at definitively proving their benefit. In this case the personalized vaccine, intismeran, was combined with Merck’s Keytruda in adjuvant melanoma, meaning patients’ disease had been surgically removed....
So sad that there are alternative, safe cancer treatments that highly paid oncologists won’t even consider.
:-(
Those doctors have boat payments to make!!
Exactly!!
🤬🤬
I *know!*
I *know!*
Just like the safe alternative treatments for covid.
Yes, exactly.
Maybe Dr. Fauci is now into Cancer treatment.
My husband’s chemo attacked his heart which was doing fine before chemo.
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