Baroness Jowell was waiting for an innovative vaccine that uses DNA taken from the tumour when she died of brain cancer on Saturday, according to her husband. David Mills, 73, said his wife had tried a number of treatments, including immunotherapy in Cologne, but none had worked. “There’s another thing that we were about to do, where a vaccine can be created from the DNA of the tumour itself and we had started that process, but unfortunately the end came before the vaccine was ready,” he told the BBC. Mr Mills, a lawyer, said he hoped that his wife’s death would encourage research to increase the survival rates of sufferers. “One thing she said was that ‘if I can just survive a year at a…

Source: The Times May 14, 2018 22:52 UTC