This seems promising: researchers have demonstrated that a “nanoparticle-based vaccine can effectively prevent melanoma, pancreatic and triple-negative breast cancer in mice”.
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These studies are always hailed as "promising" but rarely deliver any benefit to humans, and are carried out by giving cancer to mice, then "treating them". Sorry, it is wrong to make sentient beings suffer this way for a curre that almost certainly will not materialize.
Never materialize? It's literally materialized, in mice. That's a start, a first step—as is always the case with scientific discovery, where true advancements are almost always rare and involve failure more than they do progres. So, I celebrate the mice, their contribution to science, and fully recognize their suffering. They are doing far more for this earth by dying than those who would idealistically believe that progress and medical advancement are somehow possible without hard work, difficult choices and, yes, suffering. When in human history has progress happened without it?
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