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Cancer Vaccines
Researchers from University of Wisconsin detail findings in cancer vaccines
May 26th, 2009
A new study, 'Tumour vaccine approaches for CNS malignancies: progress to date,' is now available. According to a study from the United States, "Despite the many overall advances in understanding cancer biology and therapeutic development in the last 50 years, most CNS malignancies are still clinically difficult, incurable diseases. Current combinations of aggressive surgical resection, radiation therapy and chemotherapy regimens do not significantly improve long-term patient survival for these cancers." "Cancer immunotherapy is a potentially promising new therapeutic strategy that primes a patient's immune system to attack neoplastic cells. We review the preclinical...
Source: Cancer Weekly (2009-05-26)
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