For the longest time cancer vaccines were a pipe dream.

It was too risky a strategy for such a powerful immune weapon.

And so we had to, for the entire history of cancer,

we had surgery, chemotherapy and radiation therapy,

basically treating it like a monster, trying to destroy Godzilla

without destroying Tokyo in the process.

But in the last few years, there's been a sea change

in the thinking around treating cancer.

And that's really opened up the field of immunotherapy

and the possibility of treating cancer like any other disease,

including through vaccines.

And that's what we're seeing here in this study.

Scientists at Memorial Sloan Kettering in New York City

just released the results of a clinical trial

on a pancreatic cancer vaccine,

and the results could be a game changer.

The potential of cancer vaccines coming up on today's explain.

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