Therapeutic cancer vaccines show promise
Friday, July 3, 2009 - 17:28
in Health & Medicine
These wouldn't prevent the disease, but might help people who are already fighting it. It's a deceptively simple idea: What if doctors could recruit the body's own immune system to fight cancer? The complexities of the immune system have kept this from becoming reality, until now. Three cancer vaccines -- for prostate cancer, melanoma and lymphoma -- have achieved positive results in...
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