Cancer vaccines as a therapeutic strategy.

Expert review of vaccines ·Vol. 3 ·No. 6 ·2004-12-00 ·Pages 665-8

Dalgleish AG

Abstract

The concept of cancer vaccines is as a therapeutic strategy to immunize the body against cancer antigens that may not be presented by the cancer itself, due to the marked immunosuppressive effects of the disease, which has been demonstrated in many different tumors.

MeSH Terms

Animals Antigens, Neoplasm/immunology Cancer Vaccines/therapeutic use Drug Design Drug Evaluation, Preclinical Female Humans Immunotherapy Male Melanoma/immunology,therapy Prostatic Neoplasms/immunology,therapy Randomized Controlled Trials as Topic

Chemicals

Antigens, Neoplasm Cancer Vaccines

Authors & Affiliations

1 authors, click to expand affiliations / ORCID

Dalgleish Angus G

St George's Hospital Medical School, Dept. of Oncology, Cranmer Terrace, London, SW17 0RE, UK. [email protected]

Article Info

Journal

Expert review of vaccines

Abbr.

Expert Rev Vaccines

ISSN

1744-8395

DOI

10.1586/14760584.3.6.665

[email protected]

Published

2004-12-00

Pages

665-8

Language

English

Region

England

NLM ID

101155475

Subset

External Links

PubMed source DOI: 10.1586/14760584.3.6.665 View journal details

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