Cancer Vaccine
Dendritic cell-based glioma immunotherapy reviewed
Published in Vaccine Weekly, August 20th, 2003
According to a study from Japan, "Despite advances in radiation and chemotherapy along with surgical resectioning, the prognosis of patients with malignant glioma is poor. Among the new treatments currently being investigated for malignant glioma, immunotherapy is theoretically very attractive, since it offers the potential for high tumor-specific cytotoxicity."
"There are increasing reports demonstrating that systemic immunotherapy using dendritic cells is capable of inducing an antiglioma response," said Ryuya...
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Source: Vaccine Weekly (2003-08-20)
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