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Cancer Vaccines
Studies conducted at T.J. Harris et al on cancer vaccines recently published
October 14th, 2008
According to recent research published in the journal Prostate, "Cancer immunotherapy refers to an array of strategies intended to treat progressive tumors by augmenting a patient's anti-tumor immune response. As immunotherapy is eventually incorporated into oncology treatment paradigms, it is important to understand how these therapies interact with established cancer treatments such as chemotherapy or Radiotherapy (RT)." "To address this, we utilized a well-established, autochthonous murine model of prostate cancer to test whether RT could augment (or diminish) the CD4 T cell response to a tumor vaccine. Transgenic mice that develop spontaneous prostate cancer...
Source: Cancer Weekly (2008-10-14)
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