Russia Close To Creating Cancer Vaccines: Putin

Web Desk – Russian President Vladimir Putin claims his country’s scientists are near to creating cancer vaccines to be available to patients very soon.

Putin said in televised comments that the Russian scientists were close to the creation of so-called vaccines for cancer and immunomodulatory drugs of a new generation.

Speaking at a Moscow forum on future technologies, Putin hoped that soon they would be effectively used as methods of individual therapy. However, he did not make it clear which types of cancer the proposed vaccines would target, nor how.

Some Western countries and companies are already working on creating cancer vaccines. The UK government signed an agreement with Germany-based BioNTech to launch clinical trials providing “personalized cancer treatments”, aiming to reach 10,000 patients by 2030.

Moderna and Merck & Co are jointly working on an experimental cancer vaccine that would probably cut the chance of recurrence or death from melanoma – the most deadly skin cancer.

Currently, there are six licensed vaccines against human papillomaviruses (HPV) that cause many cancers.

Russia, during the coronavirus pandemic, developed its own Sputnik V vaccine against Covid-19 and sold it to many countries. People be would surprised to know that domestically it ran up against widespread public reluctance to get vaccinated.