World’s first lung cancer vaccine is being developed by British scientists & it could save thousands of lives every year [Video]

BRITISH scientists are developing the world’s first vaccine for lung cancer.

It will work by training the immune system to seek and destroy “red flag” proteins that appear on lung cells that have potentially cancerous mutations inside.

Experts from Oxford University, University College London and the Francis Crick Institute will conduct a two-year, £1.7million study of the jab with cash from Cancer Research UK.

Lung cancer is the deadliest common cancer in Britain, with around 50,000 cases and 35,000 deaths every year.

Seven in 10 cases are linked to smoking.

Trial leader Professor Mariam Jamal-Hanjani, from UCL, said: “Fewer than 10 per cent of people with lung cancer survive their disease for 10 years or more – that must change. 

“We think the vaccine could cover around 90 per cent of all lung cancers.

“It will not replace stopping …