Personalized cancer vaccine plus immunotherapy reduces melanoma recurrence after surgery

Adding a personalized mRNA-based cancer vaccine to immunotherapy after surgery for high-risk melanoma reduced the risk of recurrence or death by 42%, according to results from the phase 3 INTerpath-001 trial presented at the ESMO Congress 2026. The vaccine, intismeran autogene, was given alongside pembrolizumab and compared with pembrolizumab alone.

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