Can a vaccine help prevent Lynch syndrome-related cancers?

The clinical trial will investigate a preventive vaccine designed to recognise multiple mutated proteins frequently found in patients with Lynch syndrome.

They are hoping to immunise patients who are cancer-free with those shared foreign mutated proteins so that the immune system will be prepared, if a patient develops a tumour, to reject it.

https://www.mdanderson.org/cancerwise/can-a-vaccine-help-prevent-lynch-syndrome-related-cancers.h00-159538956.html?fbclid=IwAR0XOtXdpBBRgTQQXg3zli6keXMsvSsoTTNVOCHyb3emilZKFgGvOIHeYXc

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