Jason Palmer
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3,896 appearances
104 recordings
2 series
first heard May 2026
last heard yesterday
Jason Palmer’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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recordings per month · last 12 monthsRecordings per month over the last 12 months — 104 in all, peaking in Aug 2026 with 32.
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That is a particularly aggressive form of skin cancer.
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Doctors who removed Steve's tumor discovered he was a match for a clinical trial of a newly licensed immunotherapy treatment.
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The trial was for a personalized mRNA vaccine made by Moderna, the same company that developed an mRNA vaccine for COVID.
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In twenty twenty four he got the first dose of the vaccine.
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And just last week some preliminary results came out.
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It is a landmark result and genuinely promising.
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But as with drug trials of all sorts, plenty of questions remain.
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Natasha Loader is the Economist's health editor.
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Now winding back a bit, vaccines normally
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Associated with viruses mostly.
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How do vaccines work in the case of cancer?
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Not the same kind of thing.
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But not an easy one to put into practice.
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Why not?
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And the result of all those ideas then is the vaccine that that Steve had.
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And clearly the early results here are are very promising, but put this into context for us.
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How close are we to to being able to say that melanoma in principle can be cured?
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So it's clear how much we don't know about this trial, but as you say, there will be tremendous hope for it, and I guess most of all around the idea that it's more generalizable.
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This was a melanoma trial.
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Does this mechanism, this mRNA vaccine plus checkpoint inhibitor, pave a path towards treating cancer more generally?
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