Could someone remind me the difference between a vaccine and treatment. For some reason I thought a vaccine was a preventative measure to keep from getting something - but this seems to be described as a treatment for when you’re diagnosed?
It’s immunotherapy that prevents the cancers from deactivating the immune cells that would ordinarily kill the cancer cells. So it’s like a traditional vaccine in that it causes changes to the immune system to better equip it to fight disease, but it’s a pretty new methodology of accomplishing that.
Am I screwed now because there’s no way my insurance would approve a preventative measure or am I screwed later if/when I am diagnosed and insurance won’t approve the treatment?
Could someone remind me the difference between a vaccine and treatment. For some reason I thought a vaccine was a preventative measure to keep from getting something - but this seems to be described as a treatment for when you’re diagnosed?
It’s immunotherapy that prevents the cancers from deactivating the immune cells that would ordinarily kill the cancer cells. So it’s like a traditional vaccine in that it causes changes to the immune system to better equip it to fight disease, but it’s a pretty new methodology of accomplishing that.
Am I screwed now because there’s no way my insurance would approve a preventative measure or am I screwed later if/when I am diagnosed and insurance won’t approve the treatment?
You guys are getting diagnosed?!?
You’re correct. This is bad reporting.