World-first ovarian cancer vaccine ‘hopes to wipe out disease’ ...Tech & Science Daily podcast

Scientists are creating the world’s first vaccine for ovarian cancer (PA) (PA Archive)
Scientists are creating the world’s first vaccine for ovarian cancer (PA) (PA Archive)

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Professor Ahmed Ahmed, director of the ovarian cancer cell laboratory at MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine at the University of Oxford, is leading the research into the first ovarian cancer vaccine.

The hope is that the jab could one day be given to women preventatively on the NHS with the aim of eliminating the disease.

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