STAT | Reporting from the frontiers of health and medicine Follow STAT+: One of the most consequential years for cancer treatment, ever Between success with a pancreatic cancer drug and now success with an mRNA neoantigen vaccine, it has been a banner year for developing cancer therapies. https://www.statnews.com/2026/08/20/cancer-vaccine-merck-moderna-biotech-observations/ statnews.com