Personalised cancer vaccine is a 'landmark moment'

A personalised cancer vaccine jab that could help prevent the illness returning after surgery, has been given to a patient for the first time in what's been called a "landmark moment" for people who have the disease.

Elliot Pfebve, a bowel cancer patient, was referred to the Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham for chemotherapy and to take part in the clinical trial after having a 30cm tumour removed from his large intestine.

Thousands of other NHS cancer patients in England will be recruited to take part in vaccine trials for various forms of cancer in the coming years as part of a new scheme, officials have said.

Read more: https://news.sky.com/story/personalised-cancer-vaccine-is-a-landmark-moment-as-thousands-set-to-trial-it-13145960

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