Never-ending wonder of jabs

I’VE said it before and I’ll say it again: vaccines are incredible. Their latest achievement, revealed in research published last week, is treating one of the most vicious forms of cancer.

US scientists have repurposed the tech in Pfizer’s Covid-19 vaccine to treat pancreatic cancer – and found it banishes the disease in half of patients, for at least 18 months. This is unheard of in pancreatic cancer. But it makes me wonder why we’re only just cottoning on to the vast potential of vaccines.

Scientists have known about their scope for curing a host of diseases for years, but the focus is always on creating new drugs or treatments.

Now that researchers are finally focusing on jabs, who knows what can be achieved. Vaccines are currently showing promise for treating bowel and brain cancers, too.