{"title":"Personalized precision: Revolutionizing cancer treatment with mRNA-based vaccines in melanoma therapy.","authors":"Krishnendu Adhikary, Abhik Paul, Ayush Madan, Anas Islam, Sumel Ashique, Mohhammad Ramzan","doi":"10.1016/bs.ai.2024.10.011","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Biological and societal issues are involved when we refer to a condition as cancer, which connotes loss, complexity, and uncertainty. In recent decades, the number of melanomas has climbed. Cancer treatment vaccines have induced immune responses against tumor-associated but not tumor-specific antigens. Cancer therapy may use mRNA vaccines after COVID-19 pandemic regulation advancements. Therapy mRNA cancer vaccines as advanced immunotherapies gain prominence. Using messenger RNA, the mRNA-4157/V940 cancer vaccine encodes 34 patient-specific tumor euroantigens. mRNA-4157/V940, like the COVID-19 vaccination, instructs the immune system to distinguish healthy and malignant cells using messenger RNA. T cell responses are tailored to a patient's tumor mutational pattern using this unique immunization. The drug suppresses PD-1, PD-L1, and PD-L2. T lymphocytes activated by pembrolizumab may affect cancer and non-cancerous cells. Early clinical trials suggest pembrolizumab and mRNA-4157/V940 may boost T cell-mediated cancer killing. Knowing the status and problems of melanoma therapeutic mRNA cancer vaccines in clinical trials is critical. In this chapter, we have focused on preclinical and clinical advances that have revealed mRNA melanoma vaccine manufacturing issues and solutions.</p>","PeriodicalId":50862,"journal":{"name":"Advances in Immunology","volume":"166 ","pages":"137-167"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Advances in Immunology","FirstCategoryId":"3","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1016/bs.ai.2024.10.011","RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"2025/3/24 0:00:00","PubModel":"Epub","JCR":"Q2","JCRName":"Medicine","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Biological and societal issues are involved when we refer to a condition as cancer, which connotes loss, complexity, and uncertainty. In recent decades, the number of melanomas has climbed. Cancer treatment vaccines have induced immune responses against tumor-associated but not tumor-specific antigens. Cancer therapy may use mRNA vaccines after COVID-19 pandemic regulation advancements. Therapy mRNA cancer vaccines as advanced immunotherapies gain prominence. Using messenger RNA, the mRNA-4157/V940 cancer vaccine encodes 34 patient-specific tumor euroantigens. mRNA-4157/V940, like the COVID-19 vaccination, instructs the immune system to distinguish healthy and malignant cells using messenger RNA. T cell responses are tailored to a patient's tumor mutational pattern using this unique immunization. The drug suppresses PD-1, PD-L1, and PD-L2. T lymphocytes activated by pembrolizumab may affect cancer and non-cancerous cells. Early clinical trials suggest pembrolizumab and mRNA-4157/V940 may boost T cell-mediated cancer killing. Knowing the status and problems of melanoma therapeutic mRNA cancer vaccines in clinical trials is critical. In this chapter, we have focused on preclinical and clinical advances that have revealed mRNA melanoma vaccine manufacturing issues and solutions.
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