Vladimir Putin claims that Russia is’very near’ to producing cancer vaccines

On Wednesday (local time), Russian scientists said that they were getting close to developing cancer vaccinations that patients might soon be able to get.

“We have come very close to the creation of so-called cancer vaccines and immunomodulatory drugs for a new generation,” said Putin in remarks that were shown on television.

He said, “I hope that soon they will be effectively used as methods of individual therapy,” during a seminar on future technologies in Moscow.

Putin did not say which cancer types the vaccinations would target or how they would do so.

Numerous nations and businesses are developing vaccinations against cancer.

A deal was struck between the UK government and Germany-based BioNTech last year to begin clinical trials offering “personalised cancer treatments” with the goal of enrolling 10,000 patients by 2030.

Moderna and Merck & Co., two pharmaceutical firms, are working on an experimental cancer vaccine that, according to a mid-stage research, may reduce the risk of melanoma, the most lethal kind of skin cancer, by half after three years of therapy.

The World Health Organization reports that there are presently six approved vaccinations against human papillomaviruses (HPV), which are known to cause a variety of malignancies, including cervical cancer, as well as vaccines against Hepatitis B (HBV), which has been linked to liver cancer.

Russia created its own Sputnik V vaccine against Covid-19 during the coronavirus epidemic and marketed it to several nations, while facing strong public resistance to vaccination at home.

Putin acknowledged that he had seized Sputnik in an effort to reassure the public about its reliability and security.