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EPISODE · Aug 19, 2026 · 37 MIN

Hopes for new cancer vaccine

from The World Tonight · host BBC Radio 4

There have been encouraging results in melanoma vaccine trials run by US drug companies Moderna and Merck. The results are preliminary, but experts say they are the first positive late stage results for a cancer vaccine of this type. Also on the programme: the Duke and Duchess of Sussex plan to return to the UK; and the British pensioners, resident in Sweden for decades, threatened with deportation.

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