Cancer and heart disease vaccines ‘ready by end of the decade’

Exclusive: Pharmaceutical firm says groundbreaking jabs could save millions of lives

• A silver lining': how Covid ushered in a vaccines golden era

Millions of lives could be saved by a groundbreaking set of new vaccines for a range of conditions including cancer, experts have said. A leading pharmaceutical firm said it is confident that jabs for cancer, cardiovascular and autoimmune diseases, and other conditions will be ready by 2030.

Studies into these vaccinations are also showing tremendous promise", with some researchers saying 15 years' worth of progress has been unspooled" in 12 to 18 months thanks to the success of the Covid jab.