Immunogene Therapy

Transduced tumor cells are prime candidates for becoming tumor vaccines

Published in Vaccine Weekly, July 10th, 2002

by Sonia Nichols, senior medical writer - Vaccine and cancer researchers believe immunogene therapy may be a major way to use the body's own immune response system to treat and eradicate certain types of cancer.

"Immunogene therapy is a novel cancer treatment strategy based on vaccination with irradiated autologous tumor cells transduced with immunostimulatory genes," explained Ian F. Parney, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.

To better understand the prospects of using immunogene therapy in humans, Parney and colleagues have examined the responses of glioma and melanoma cells growing in culture when subjected to immunostimulatory...

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