Personalised cancer vaccines are finally beating hard to treat tumours

WHEN Mark Lashway found out that his melanoma skin cancer had spread to his lungs, he immediately quit his job as a chemistry teacher in Hillsdale, New York, and prepared for the worst. “I knew the survival rate was only 15 per cent and I was frightened. It was the realisation of like, ‘Holy cow, is this it?’,” he says.

Original article: https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg25433920-400-personalised-cancer-vaccines-are-finally-beating-hard-to-treat-tumou