Therapeutic cancer vaccines show promise
| 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 ly... 07/04/2009 01:00 (LaTimes health) Continue to read news >> |
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