NHS patients in England to be offered trials for world-first

Jab personalised for individual’s tumours hailed as ‘gamechanger’ amid high hopes of stopping disease returning

What are cancer vaccines and could they be a cure?

Thousands of patients in England are to be fast-tracked into groundbreaking trials of personalised cancer vaccines in a revolutionary world-first NHS “matchmaking” scheme to save lives.

The gamechanging jabs, which aim to provide a permanent cure, are custom-built for each patient in just a few weeks. They are tailored to the individual’s tumours and work by telling their body to hunt and kill any cancer cells and prevent the disease from coming back.