MOSCOW, April 1. /TASS/. The first patient in Russia was administered a domestically-made personalized cancer vaccine on April 1, the Health Ministry said in a statement.

"The Russian Health Ministry’s National Medical Research Center for Radiology has, for the first time in clinical practice, administered the Neooncovac personalized anti-cancer vaccine to a patient diagnosed with skin melanoma. The first patient to receive the vaccine was a 60-year-old resident of the Kursk Region," the statement reads.

"Today, we are at a point where cancer treatment is becoming truly personalized. We have for the first time used an mRNA vaccine customized for a specific patient. This marks a fundamentally different approach, aimed at not just treating a disease but at ‘teaching’ the immune system to identify and eliminate exactly the cells that pose a threat," Andrey Kaprin, the Radiology Center’s director general, pointed out.