{"id":115596,"date":"2025-11-01T07:57:17","date_gmt":"2025-11-01T07:57:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/115596\/"},"modified":"2025-11-01T07:57:17","modified_gmt":"2025-11-01T07:57:17","slug":"luke-oneill-how-your-covid-19-vaccine-could-help-to-fight-against-cancer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/115596\/","title":{"rendered":"Luke O\u2019Neill: How your Covid-19 vaccine could help to fight against cancer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">Researchers find injection gives a general boost to the immune system\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Getting the mRNA Covid-19 vaccine could also help your immune system fight cancer. Stock image: Getty\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/99afceaf-c178-4bca-84e7-abce86e14d14.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Getting the mRNA Covid-19 vaccine could also help your immune system fight cancer. Stock image: Getty<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Something very exciting has happened in the world of immunology, specifically in the effort to get a person\u2019s own immune system to kill cancer.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">This is a hot topic among cancer specialists. There has been progress with immunotherapy becoming more common in the treatment of cancer, but many patients don\u2019t respond to the immune boosters being used. Now comes news that patients with lung cancer who have also been given the mRNA Covid-19 vaccines are surviving for much longer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Researchers find injection gives a general boost to the immune system Getting the mRNA Covid-19 vaccine could also&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":115597,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[969,103,61,60],"class_list":{"0":"post-115596","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-health","8":"tag-donald-trump","9":"tag-health","10":"tag-ie","11":"tag-ireland"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115596","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=115596"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115596\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/115597"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=115596"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=115596"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=115596"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}