Vladimir Putin Says Russia Is Close To Creating Cancer Vaccines

Vladimir Putin, Russia President 

Russia close to making cancer vaccine, announces Vladimir Putin

Putin said in televised comments that “we have come very close to the creation of so-called cancer vaccines and immunomodulatory drugs of a new generation.”

Vladimir Putin, the president of Russia, stated on Wednesday that Russian researchers were getting close to developing cancer vaccines that patients might soon be able to get.

He continued, “I hope that soon they will be effectively used as methods of individual therapy,” at a forum on future technologies in Moscow. Putin did not say which cancer types the vaccines would target or how they would do so.

According to the World Health Organization, there are currently six approved vaccines against hepatitis B (HBV), which can cause liver cancer, and against human papillomaviruses (HPV), which cause numerous cancers, including cervical cancer.

The pharmaceutical giants Moderna and Merck & Co. are making promising progress with their experimental cancer vaccine. A mid-stage study found that this vaccine cut the patient's risk of dying from or having melanoma, a deadly form of skin cancer, in half after three years of treatment.