Significant progress made towards individualized cancer immunotherapy
Tuesday, May 12, 2015 - 13:30
in Health & Medicine
Significant advances have been made with regard to the development of individualized immunotherapy strategies for treating cancer. They have managed to identify the relevant genetic changes or mutations associated with various types of cancer and have determined their individual blueprints. This makes it possible for the scientists to readily produce customized cancer vaccines of the kind that have already been demonstrated to be effective in animal models.