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Cancer Vaccines
New cancer vaccines study findings have been published by N. Aptsiauri and colleagues
November 12th, 2008
According to a study from Granada, Spain, "Despite the significant efforts to enhance immune reactivity against malignancies the clinical effect of anti-tumor vaccines and cancer immunotherapy is still below expectations. Understanding of the possible causes of such poor clinical outcome has become very important for improvement of the existing cancer treatment modalities." "In particular, the critical role of HLA class I antigens in the success of T cell based immunotherapy has led to a growing interest in investigating the expression and function of these molecules in metastatic cancer progression and, especially in response to immunotherapy. In this report, we...
Source: Vaccine Weekly (2008-11-12)
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