Cancer Vaccines
Studies from Walter Reed Army Medical Center, Department of Surgery add new findings in the area of cancer vaccines
Published in Vaccine Weekly, February 7th, 2007
New research, "Analysis of naïve and memory CD4 and CD8 T cell populations in breast cancer patients receiving a HER2/neu peptide (E75) and GM-CSF vaccine," is the subject of a report. According to a study from the United States, "We are conducting clinical trials of the E75 peptide as a vaccine in breast cancer (BrCa) patients. We assessed T cell subpopulations in BrCa patients before and after E75 vaccination and compared them to healthy controls."
"We obtained 17 samples of blood from ten healthy individuals and samples from 22 BrCa patients prior to vaccination. We also obtained pre-and post-vaccination samples of blood from seven BrCa patients who received the...
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Source: Vaccine Weekly (2007-02-07)
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