In 2025, Russia plans to release an mRNA cancer vaccine that will use AI to speed up personalized production to less than an hour and strengthen the immune system to target cancer cells.

The Russian government claims to have created its own cancer vaccine in what may be considered the century's greatest discovery. Early in 2025 is when the vaccine is anticipated to be released.

Andrey Kaprin, the general director of the Russian Ministry of Health's Radiology Medical Research Center, said on Radio Rossiya that Russia has created its own mRNA vaccine to prevent cancer and would provide it to patients at no cost.

According to pre-clinical trials, the vaccine inhibits the growth of tumors and their potential to spread, Alexander Gintsburg, director of the Gamaleya National Research Center for Epidemiology and Microbiology, told TASS.

In televised remarks earlier this year, Russian President Vladimir Putin claimed that they were extremely close to developing new immunomodulatory medications and so-called cancer vaccinations.

During vaccine trials, Gintsburg told reporters that the processing time needed to develop a customized cancer vaccine, which is now a time-consuming procedure, could be reduced to less than an hour through the use of artificial neural networks.

By encouraging the immune system to identify and target cancer cells, vaccines can fight cancer. Therapeutic cancer vaccines teach the immune system to recognize and eliminate tumor cells by targeting certain proteins or antigens that are produced by these cells. To elicit a robust immune response, certain vaccines, for example, employ viruses that have been weakened or altered to deliver these antigens. By protecting against viruses associated with cancer, preventive immunizations like the HPV vaccine lower the chance of developing some types of cancer, including cervical cancer. Vaccines are a potential technique in oncology because they can reduce tumor development, prevent recurrence, or even eradicate early-stage tumors by strengthening the body's natural defenses.