Moderna's skin cancer vaccine shows promise in trial

The vaccine is built on the mRNA platform that allowed Moderna to quickly roll out COVID-19 vaccines five years ago.

CBS News medical correspondent Dr. Céline Gounder, who has had melanoma herself, said Moderna's experimental trial is "a big win for mRNA vaccines against cancer."

New Melanoma Vaccine Shows Promise In Fighting Cancer, Preventing Recurrence  HuffPost

Moderna Stock Soars on Cancer Vaccine Success  WSJ

Pharmaceutical companies Merck, known as MSD outside the United States and Canada, and Moderna announced on Wednesday that their individualized neoantigen therapy, intismeran autogene, met its endpoints in a phase 3 trial in melanoma patients. It is the first positive result at that stage for an mRNA-based cancer treat

Moderna and Merck said the personalised vaccine reduced the risk of recurrence and spread of melanoma in a late-stage trial, a major success in a new field of cancer treatment.

Moderna and Merck said the personalised vaccine reduced the risk of recurrence and spread of melanoma in a late-stage trial, a major success in a new field of cancer treatment.

The combined drug works by nudging the body’s own immune system to make proteins that attack and destroy melanoma cells

Moderna's mRNA vaccine Intismeran shows promise, reducing melanoma recurrence and spread in late-stage trials.

The candidate is a combination of an mRNA therapeutic vaccine and Merck’s cancer drug Keytruda.

Drugmaker’s melanoma shot developed with Merck delivers positive outcome in late-stage trial

Moderna shares jump 175% on skin cancer trial success  The Times

Moderna and Merck shares soared on Wednesday after the companies said a personalized mRNA treatment hit its target of preventing skin cancer from recurring or spreading in a late-stage clinical trial. Why it matters: The results come at a pivotal moment for Moderna and mRNA research, after Trump administration health

Pharmaceutical companies Moderna and Merck announced today the highly promising results of their anti-cancer mRNA vaccine Phase 3 clinical trial targeting later-stage melanoma skin cancers. Researchers sequenced the DNA from each patient's tumors to create personalized vaccines that, when injected, rev up the immune sy

Moderna, Merck vaccine cuts recurrence and spread of melanoma, raising new treatment hope  Reuters

The shot, paired with Merck's Keytruda, cut the risk of melanoma recurrence in a trial of more than 1,100 patients.

The results mark a step forward in the effort to treat not just melanoma but other forms of cancer with vaccines designed to help keep patients disease-free.

The vaccine reportedly thwarted the cancer's return and spread.

Pharmaceutical giants Moderna and Merck said that an experimental vaccine treatment has shown signs of preventing cancer from returning or spreading in a study of high-risk melanoma patients. NBC News health reporter Aria Bendix explains what happens next.

Moderna and Merck say the experimental vaccine prevented the return and spread of the cancer in high-risk melanoma patients.

Merck and Moderna report that a personalized mRNA vaccine helped prevent skin cancer from returning in high-risk patients. Observers greeted the news with enthusiasm but noted that full data from the ongoing late-stage study has yet to be released.

US pharmaceutical firms Merck and Moderna announced on Wednesday encouraging results from a trial of their experimental vaccine against melanoma, potentially clearing the way for approval. The vaccine, called intismeran autogene, showed “statistically significant and clinically meaningful improvements” for skin cancer

An experimental personalized mRNA-based cancer vaccine from Merck and Moderna was successful at preventing melanoma from returning or spreading in a late-stage trial of high risk patients, the companies announced Wednesday.   The positive results mean a potentially life-extending treatment is one step closer to being a

Moderna-Merck melanoma therapy averts cancer recurrence in study  Chicago Tribune

Stock prices for the American vaccine manufacturer Moderna more than doubled on Wednesday after the company reported successful results from its messenger RNA melanoma cancer vaccine.  The mRNA shot, in combination with Merck’s immunotherapy drug Keytruda, met critical benchmarks in a global late-stage clinical trial o

Moderna and Merck announced today that their personalized mRNA-based cancer vaccine, combined with Merck’s immunotherapy medication Keytruda, met initial goals in a late-stage trial.  The ongoing mRNA cancer vaccine study involves 1,137 patients with high-risk melanoma that has been surgically removed. In early results

Combining a vaccine and immunotherapy approach could open new ways to treat cancer.

President Trump is expected to nominate Heidi Overton, White House deputy director of domestic policy, to serve as the next FDA commissioner

Moderna shares surge as melanoma vaccine with Merck succeeds in large trial  CNN

The mRNA-based vaccine combined with Keytruda reduced melanoma recurrence in more than 1,100 patients whose cancer had been surgically removed

The combination regimen significantly extended the time patients lived without their melanoma returning, compared with Keytruda alone.