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Cancer Vaccine Research Now a Priority

Published in Vaccine Weekly, March 27th, 1995

In a rapid change of direction, cancer researchers at the U.S. National Cancer Institute, biotechnology companies, and academic research institutions are committing extensive resources to the search for therapeutic cancer vaccines.

"Two years ago I said that the 80s were the decade of monoclonal antibodies and that the 90s were the decade of vaccines. That is even more true today," Lynn Spitler, director of the Melanoma Research Institute, San Francisco, California, said in opening remarks to the Second International Conference on Engineered Vaccines for Cancer and AIDS, held March 3-5 in San Francisco, California. "I am astonished with the number of studies, the...

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