Link: https://www.theguardian.com/science/2026/may/30/cancer-jab-can-eradicate-entire-tumours-in-patients-trial-shows

Jab brought ‘unprecedentedly strong responses’ in patients whose disease had become resistant to chemotherapy and immunotherapy

In an international trial spanning 11 countries, the injection was offered to patients whose cancer had spread or come back and whose disease had failed to respond to other treatments.

In the trial, 102 patients with head and neck cancer, the world’s sixth most common cancer, were given the jab. Tumours shrank or disappeared completely in 43 patients, including 28 whose tumours shrank significantly and 15 who saw them eradicated entirely.

Can we please stop saying "jab"?

I hope whomever patents it gives it away.

I guess we can’t expect better than “the jab” from “the guardian.”

Test subjects were administered Amivantamab.

Yes, they say as much in the article

But what about all the people who have died from cancer‽‽‽ Is their sacrifice in vain?

/s of course

This isn't so much a jab as an upper cut

England has referred to vaccines as jabs long before it started to be used as a pejorative.

Its not a tooma! Get to the choppa!

Cant wait for the antivaxxers do backflips over this

There's such an insane percentage of people that this is real life for.

Pharma is not about curing people it‘s about constant medication. Otherwise the profits are less.

"Now get back to work."

Johnson and Johnson, so... Not likely.

Some movies like "I Am Legend" have this as their plot, where it does not end well, so they are already prepared.

its a biologic medication, the suffix ending with -mab always is associated with biologic. if you have psoriasis they use these kinds to treat them, or an autoimmune disease.

Woah, this is HUGE. That's so cool! Good things are still happening! Woo!

Beats dying

Bring me da Wookie!

OOTL: what’s wrong with jab?

Uraaaaghhlll!

If you're in decent health

MAB
Monoclonal antibody

It's just awfully informal and reductive for something life-saving and sophisticated.

Imagine a paramedic saves your life and you call them a meatsack.

This just in, the Trump administration has banned this medication.

Nobody is confusing which meaning they meant.

Use of the word to mean vaccine is just reductive and awfully informal.

I've only heard it in the context of antivaxxers. Apparently it goes back further in the UK, but that's when it broke containment.

Weird that the headline and snippet implies that it supplants immunotherapy, when it sounds like an immunotherapy.

Just checked the wikipedia page. This compound is only specific for certain types of tumors (epidermal growth factor receptor, EGFR, exon 20 insertion mutations.)

I was afraid this could be all fake. But not, is just clickbaity reporting.

I would most likely have said they were shocking someone, rather than administering defibrillation, though both are just round about ways of saying they were turning someone's heart off and on again.

The fact they administered what I consider a mind blowing treatment by way of jab just goes to show what amazing things humans can do.

If they don't, it still won't stop India from flooding the market with the generic versions.

"Cancer is nurgles gift" or something

Well, the guy who kinda caused the modern anti vax movement is an UK export, might be that.

I wish the media would stop calling a shot a “jab”. Ever since COVID everyone calls any kinda shot a “jab”.

All the antivax bullshit started from the piece of shit grifter doctor Andrew Wakefield back in the 90s in the UK.

Not really. Death means eternal oblivion, living means struggling and misery.

It's the Guardian. The New York Post of the UK.

Guardian has no clue on medical articles.

I thought that was the daily mail

But this drug is not a vaccine.

If you do not understand the difference between a monoclonal antibody and a vaccine, fuck off down voters.

My parents fucked to have me.

Vs:

My parents had sex to have me.

Or even:

my parents were on the bed doggy style, when my mom was on hands and knees on the bed while my dad was behind here thrusting his huge penis into her very tight vagina over and over. She loved every second of it and so did he. They loved eachother very much and entrusted eachother enough to allow this raw behaviour into their bedroom each night of every day. As the penis reached climax, it injected billions upon billions of spermatozoids into her vaginal cavity. Each sperm only had one goal.... Swim, swim! If the egg is encountered then go into it to inject the DNA that would become me. All but one would encounter they demise.

No the daily mail is the toilet paper analog in the UK

Or have a government that ensures the health and welfare of its populace.

It's not a vaccine.

Cancer is over 300 different diseases. Some are curable, others are not, some drugs works wonders for some types of cancer and do nothing for others.

Anytime you read "cure for cancer" it will be clickbait bullshit, what the Guardian is famous for.

Sure, which is why pharma doesn't make antibiotics? Right?

Jabba jabba nipple ringy.

This might surprise you, but if there was a magic drug to cure all cancer, for free, it would make a difference of 36 months to average lifespans.

Do we have a cancer cure vaccine despite all those findings in the past 20 years? Where are all those wonder cures? Probably in some drawer.