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Cancer Vaccines

Data on cancer vaccines published by researchers at Yale University, Medical Department

Published in Cancer Weekly, August 25th, 2009

"Papillomavirus-like particles (VLPs) based on L1 capsid protein represent a promising prophylactic vaccine against human papillomavirus (HPV) infections. However, cell-mediated immune responses against this antigen are believed to be of limited therapeutic value in established HPV-infected cervical lesions and, for this reason, have not been intensively investigated in cervical cancer patients," investigators in the United States report.

"In this study we analyzed and quantified by real-time PCR (RT-PCR) the RNA expression levels of E6, E7, and L1 genes in flash-frozen HPV-16 cervical carcinomas. In addition, the kinetics of expression of E6, E7, and L1 in...

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