Cancer Vaccines

Studies advance knowledge in cancer vaccines research

Published in Cancer Weekly, April 17th, 2006

Cancer vaccines research advances have been reported from Germany and France.

Study 1: Investigators describe the efficacy of dendritic cell-based cancer immunotherapy targeting MUC-1 in a recent issue of Cancer Immunology Immunotherapy.

Researchers in Germany report, "Vaccination therapy using dendritic cells (DC) as antigen-presenting cells (APC) has shown significant promise in laboratory and animal studies as a potential treatment for malignant diseases. Pulsing of autologous DCs with tumor-associated antigens (TAA) is a method often used for antigen delivery and choice of suitable antigens plays an important role in designing an effective...

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Source: Cancer Weekly (2006-04-17)

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