Cancer vaccine appears closer to becoming reality

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Cancer vaccine appears closer to becoming reality

Posted Mar 22nd 2006 10:31AM by Dalene Entenmann
Filed under: Drug, Prevention

Karolinska Institute in Sweden researchers report they have identified a molecule that can be used as a cancer vaccination agent against growing cancer tumors. The initial results are based on animal experiments, but the discover may lead to promising new methods of halting the spread of cancer. This new study is a continuation of an original discovery that first identified the TEIPP-T cell and by Karolinska Institute in 1998.

"So far we've only conducted research on mice, so it's too early to get our hopes up too much," says Elisabeth Wolpert at the Microbiology and Tumour Biology Centre. "However, the study does point toward new possible ways of developing a treatment for advanced tumor diseases."

Tags: cancer, cancer vaccine, CancerVaccine, prevention

Reader Comments

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1. Wow, a vaccine would be a lot nicer than chemotherapy and radiation therapy.

Posted at 12:23AM on Mar 23rd 2006 by martin

2. I think there is similar work underway in the states. Although there are very few clinical trials underway at the time.

Posted at 2:51PM on Mar 29th 2006 by melody



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