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Immunotherapy
Reports outline immunotherapy study findings from Curtin University of Technology
December 23rd, 2008
"Anti-cancer immunotherapies aim to generate resolution of all existing tumors, including inaccessible ones, and provide long-term protection against recurrence. This is rarely achieved," scientists writing in the journal International Immunology report. "Thus, we aimed to determine if the tumor microenvironment could be turned into a potent 'self'-vaccine site. Our target was to eradicate larger tumor burdens. Our models respond to single-agent immunotherapies; however, they fail at a precisely defined 'cut-off' tumor burden. Thus, this system was used to define the immune mechanisms required to mediate regression of larger tumors that are resistant to...
Source: Cancer Weekly (2008-12-23)
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