Hello Nadra and thanks for posting

As far as I'm aware the vaccine trial will eventually open for patients who are receiving cancer treatment on the NHS and some of the patients will be selected for tumour testing.

As you can see in the highlighted information above Dr Victoria Goss , Head of Early Diagnosis and Translational Research at the SCTU (Southampton Clinical Trials Unit),says: “Patients with early or late-stage cancer who are receiving cancer treatment on the NHS will be able to have tumour samples sent to the laboratories for analysis. If their cancer contains mutations that may be suitable for use in a personalised cancer vaccine, then they may be eligible to enter screening for one of the vaccine trials.”

I think that as your mother had treatment else where, it is probably unlikely that she would be selected. It does sound from the information that it is current patients that they will be recruiting and they will need access to their tumour samples.

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Kind regards,

Celene