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Cancer Vaccines
Data on cancer vaccines discussed by researchers at University of Virginia
February 17th, 2009
"Human cancer vaccines incorporating autologous tumor cells carry a risk of implantation and subsequent metastasis of viable tumor cells into the patient who is being treated. Despite the fact that the melanoma cell preparations used in a recent vaccine trial (Mel37) were gamma-irradiated (200 Gy), approximately 25% of the preparations failed quality control release criteria which required that the irradiated cells incorporate H-3-thymidine at no more than 5% the level seen in the non-irradiated cells," scientists in the United States report. "We have, therefore, investigated ultraviolet (UV)-irradiation as a possible adjunct to, or replacement for gamma-irradiation....
Source: Cancer Weekly (2009-02-17)
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