Trump proposes radical plan to fight cancer with vaccines, promising $500 billion to do so

Trump has promised to send Americans to Mars and end wars in Ukraine and the Middle East. But Donald Trump’s most influential move may be creating a cancer vaccine.

This week, amid a flood of executive orders, the new president announced a $500 billion project that he called “the largest artificial intelligence infrastructure project in history.”

The White House claims the Stargate project will create tens of thousands of new jobs and initiate a new technological revolution.

But the main prospect of this program is to finally create cures for cancer.

Larry Ellison, chief technology officer at computer software company Oracle, says their technology could use simple blood tests to scan for tiny tumor cells that neither humans nor existing lab tests can detect. In this way, patients with the earliest forms of the disease could be detected and treated before the cancer spreads.

Ellison further added: “Once we have the gene sequence of a cancer tumor, it will be possible to vaccinate humans, that is, to develop a vaccine for each individual person to inoculate them against exactly their disease, and to create such an mRNA vaccine robotically using artificial intelligence in about 48 hours.” He called the cancer treatment “the promise of the future.”

Mr. Ellison said a potential personalized cancer vaccine is “the hope that AI gives us, and that’s the promise of the future.”

Such experimental mRNA-based cancer vaccines have been in development since the technology was perfected during the Covid pandemic. The mRNA vaccines came to public attention when Trump organized a campaign to promote and accelerate the development and distribution of Covid-19 vaccines and treatments – Operation Warp Speed.

Trump has faced anger from his supporters over his involvement in the development of mRNA vaccines against Covid that his administration funded, because many Republicans and Trump supporters were against those vaccinations.

But would they be against cancer vaccines?

When creating mRNA-based cancer vaccines, scientists take a sample of a patient’s tumor and analyze its genetic code – since every tumor is genetically different, this means no two cancer vaccines are the same. They then use a part of that vaccine, called RNA, to develop a customized vaccine for the patient in the lab. When the vaccine is administered, the body’s cells are instructed to produce a harmless part of the tumor, triggering an immune system response.

This process trains the immune system to recognize a similar element of cancer in the future, providing protection against the disease.

Traditional vaccines work on a similar principle, using a small or weakened portion of a pathogen, such as a virus, to help the immune system recognize it as a threat.

The problem is that highly personalized vaccines now take months to develop, and the cost of vaccines in the U.S. is extremely high – about $100,000 per patient.

AI is expected to be able to detect cancer at an early stage, which would greatly speed up the production of vaccines and reduce their cost.

Despite criticism and doubts, the new method of cancer treatment is likely to be a long-awaited breakthrough in the medical community as cancer incidence is on the rise worldwide.

Between 1990 and 2019, the number of cancer cases among young people worldwide increased by 79% and deaths by 28%, and research suggests that diagnoses will continue to rise by 31% and deaths by 21% in 2030.

Almost all continents are seeing an increase in the number of different types of cancer in people under 50, which is particularly alarming because in this population the disease is usually detected in later stages as most doctors are not trained to look for it in younger people.

Experts have long suggested that increased obesity and earlier diagnosis of cancer, as well as high-fat diets, alcohol and tobacco use, may be the cause of this increase.

Trump’s announcement is one in a long line of health care changes the new president has implemented in just a few days of his second term.

Shortly after his inauguration, Trump also withdrew from the World Health Organization for the second time, raising concerns among experts that the effectiveness of the fight against global diseases such as AIDS, malaria, polio and tuberculosis could be severely compromised.

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Published: 25.01.2025

Updated: 24.01.2025

Medical author, Medical editor:

Stepan Yuk

Medical expert:

PhD. Olexandr Voznyak