Cancer Vaccines by Russian Scientists Soon, Claims Putin

Russian scientists are close to creating vaccines for cancer that could soon be available to patients, President Vladimir Putin said on Wednesday.

In a televised statement, Putin said, “We have come very close to the creation of so-called cancer vaccines and immunomodulatory drugs of a new generation”.

“I hope that soon they will be effectively used as methods of individual therapy,” he added while speaking at a Moscow forum on future technologies.

Putin did not inform which types of cancer the proposed vaccines would target, nor how.

Several countries and companies are working on cancer vaccines.

There are currently six licensed vaccines against human papillomaviruses (HPV) that cause many cancers, including cervical cancer, according to the World Health Organization, as well as vaccines against hepatitis B (HBV), which can lead to liver cancer.