Cancer — Vax Before Cancer

Questions and Answers

Fact check in progress

Aug 19

3 min read

HPV 16 Immunotherapy Study Completes Patient Enrollment

Inovio Pharmaceuticals VGX-3100 immunotherapy targets human papillomavirus (HPV) 16 and 18

mountain with a person celebrating on the top of it

Sexually Transmitted Diseases

Fact checked by Robert Carlson, MD

Aug 16

4 min read

Cancer Vaccine Candidate ImmuneFx Enters Human Study

Morphogenesis ImmuneFx cancer vaccine studies impact on cutaneous melanoma with accessible lesions

bacteria cells

Fact checked by Robert Carlson, MD

Aug 14

6 min read

#HowIRecommend Vaccine Video Series Launched by CDC

Gardasil HPV vaccine can prevent a common virus that can lead to certain types of cancer later in life

kids looking at a video on a computer screen

Childhood Diseases

Fact checked by Robert Carlson, MD

Aug 12

4 min read

Advanced Pancreatic Cancer Screening Not-Recommended

Detecting pancreatic cancer with CT scan, MRI, or endoscopic ultrasonography not recommended by the USPSTF

cat scan maching in a hospital

Fact checked by Kelley Lu, PharmD

Aug 11

4 min read

New Development Tools Produce Quicker Cancer Immunotherapy

Stabilized form of the MHC protein holds promise within a new field of personalized T cell therapy

key has unlocked the lock in the computer