Cancer Vaccines
Survival Influenced by Immune Response to Polymorphic Epithelial Mucin
Published in Women's Health Weekly, April 1st, 2000
"Polymorphic epithelial mucin (PEM or MUCI) is being studied as a vaccine substrate for the immunotherapy of patients with adenocarcinoma," stated S. von Mensdorff-Pouilly and colleagues, Vrije University Amsterdam, The Netherlands. "The present study analyzes the incidence of naturally occurring MUC1 antibodies in early breast cancer patients and relates the presence of these antibodies in pretreatment serum to outcome of disease."
von Mensdorff-Pouilly et al. published the results of...
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