<p>Moscow: President Vladimir Putin said on Wednesday that Russian scientists were close to creating vaccines for cancer that could soon be available to patients.</p>.<p>Putin said in televised comments that "we have come very close to the creation of so-called cancer vaccines and immunomodulatory drugs of a new generation".</p>.<p>"I hope that soon they will be effectively used as methods of individual therapy," he added, speaking at a Moscow forum on future technologies.</p>.<p>Putin did not specify which types of cancer the proposed vaccines would target, nor how.</p>.Kremlin denies report that Putin offered a ceasefire in Ukraine.<p>A number of countries and companies are working on cancer vaccines. Last year the UK government signed an agreement with Germany-based BioNTech to launch clinical trials providing "personalised cancer treatments", aiming to reach 10,000 patients by 2030.</p>.<p>Pharmaceutical companies Moderna and Merck Co are developing an experimental cancer vaccine that a mid-stage study showed cut the chance of recurrence or death from melanoma - the most deadly skin cancer - by half after three years of treatment.</p>.<p>There are currently six licensed vaccines against human papillomaviruses (HPV) that cause many cancers, including cervical cancer, according to the World Health Organization, as well as vaccines against hepatitis B (HBV), which can lead to liver cancer.</p>.<p>During the coronavirus pandemic, Russia developed its own Sputnik V vaccine against Covid-19 and sold it to a number of countries, although domestically it ran up against widespread public reluctance to get vaccinated.</p>.<p>Putin himself said he had taken Sputnik, in a bid to assure people of its efficacy and safety.</p>
<p>Moscow: President Vladimir Putin said on Wednesday that Russian scientists were close to creating vaccines for cancer that could soon be available to patients.</p>.<p>Putin said in televised comments that "we have come very close to the creation of so-called cancer vaccines and immunomodulatory drugs of a new generation".</p>.<p>"I hope that soon they will be effectively used as methods of individual therapy," he added, speaking at a Moscow forum on future technologies.</p>.<p>Putin did not specify which types of cancer the proposed vaccines would target, nor how.</p>.Kremlin denies report that Putin offered a ceasefire in Ukraine.<p>A number of countries and companies are working on cancer vaccines. Last year the UK government signed an agreement with Germany-based BioNTech to launch clinical trials providing "personalised cancer treatments", aiming to reach 10,000 patients by 2030.</p>.<p>Pharmaceutical companies Moderna and Merck Co are developing an experimental cancer vaccine that a mid-stage study showed cut the chance of recurrence or death from melanoma - the most deadly skin cancer - by half after three years of treatment.</p>.<p>There are currently six licensed vaccines against human papillomaviruses (HPV) that cause many cancers, including cervical cancer, according to the World Health Organization, as well as vaccines against hepatitis B (HBV), which can lead to liver cancer.</p>.<p>During the coronavirus pandemic, Russia developed its own Sputnik V vaccine against Covid-19 and sold it to a number of countries, although domestically it ran up against widespread public reluctance to get vaccinated.</p>.<p>Putin himself said he had taken Sputnik, in a bid to assure people of its efficacy and safety.</p>