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Cancer Vaccines
Research on cancer vaccines published by scientists at University of Florida, Health Science Center
February 27th, 2007
Fresh data on cancer are presented in the report "Reversal of tumor-mediated immunosuppression." According to a study from the United States, "Therapeutic cancer vaccines, one form of active immunotherapy, have long been under investigation; consequently, several vaccine-based strategies have now moved from the bench to the clinical arena. Despite their tremendous promise, current vaccine strategies have shown only limited success in clinical settings, even in renal cell carcinoma (RCC), a prototypical malignancy for the application of immunotherapy." "There is ample evidence that, especially in RCC, multiple immunosuppressive mechanisms exist that considerably dampen...
Source: Cancer Weekly (2007-02-27)
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