News tagged with cancer vaccine
Cell death unleashes full force of human antiviral system
A scientific team led by researchers at the University of Geneva (UNIGE) and the Charite Berlin Medical University has made a completely unprecedented discovery showing how much our immune system is provoked into action when ...
Feb 09, 2012 |
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Using the body's own immune system in the fight against cancer
DNA sequences from tumor cells can be used to direct the immune system to attack cancer, according to scientists at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis.
Feb 08, 2012 |
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US recommends routine HPV vaccination for boys
US health authorities on Friday urged all boys age 11-12 to get a routine vaccination against the most common sexually transmitted disease, human papillomavirus, or HPV.
Feb 03, 2012 |
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Study shows girls believe HPV vaccine protects from other STDs
(Medical Xpress) -- A new study published in the Archives of Pediatric and Adolescent Medicine shows that almost a quarter of girls surveyed believe that the HPV vaccine will also help prevent other STDs. ...
Jan 06, 2012 |
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Novel brain tumor vaccine acts like bloodhound to locate cancer cells
A national clinical trial testing the efficacy of a novel brain tumor vaccine has begun at Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center, the only facility in the Southeast to participate.
Jan 05, 2012 |
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Researchers shorten time for manufacturing of personalized ovarian cancer vaccine
(Medical Xpress) -- Researchers from the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania are in the midst of testing a personalized, dendritic cell vaccine in patients with recurrent ovarian, primary peritoneal ...
Dec 26, 2011 |
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Discovery of new vaccine approach for treatment of cancer
(Medical Xpress) -- Scientists in Trinity College Dublin, Ireland, have developed a new vaccine to treat cancer at the pre-clinical level. The research team led by Professor Kingston Mills, Professor of Experimental ...
Dec 21, 2011 |
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New vaccine attacks breast cancer in mice
Researchers from the University of Georgia and the Mayo Clinic in Arizona have developed a vaccine that dramatically reduces tumors in a mouse model that mimics 90 percent of human breast and pancreatic cancer ...
Dec 12, 2011 |
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For protection against cancers, both boys and girls benefit from getting HPV vaccine
On Oct. 25, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommended that all adolescent boys be immunized against the human papilloma virus, which causes several types of cancer in both sexes. We strongly support ...
Dec 12, 2011 |
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Researchers repair immune system in leukemia patients following chemotherapy
A new treatment using leukemia patients' own infection-fighting cells appears to protect them from infections and cancer recurrence following treatment with fludarabine-based chemotherapy, according to new research from the ...
Dec 12, 2011 |
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New brain vaccine aims to turn fatal disease into chronic illness
When U.S. Sen. Edward Kennedy was diagnosed with a glioblastoma of the brain in May 2009, doctors understood there was little chance he could survive it. He died that August.
Nov 29, 2011 |
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Britons to take part in Cuban lung cancer vaccine trial
British patients will soon take part in a trial of a Cuban-designed therapeutic lung cancer vaccine, the first of its kind, a company executive announced Thursday.
Nov 25, 2011 |
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Cancer vaccine impact limited unless drug industry focuses on difficult-to-treat tumors
Drug companies currently developing therapeutic cancer vaccines may be determining the cancers they target based on the number of annual cases, not the number of deaths they cause.
Nov 21, 2011 |
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Partnership sees cervical vaccines for poorer countries
A major campaigner in vaccines for poorer countries announced plans on Thursday for innoculating up to two million women and girls against cervical cancer by 2015.
Nov 17, 2011 |
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No evidence for potential competition between human papillomavirus types in men
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices recently recommended that teenage boys be vaccinated against the human papillomavirus.
Nov 14, 2011 |
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Cancer vaccine
The term cancer vaccine refers to a vaccine that either prevents infections with cancer-causing viruses, treats existing cancer or prevents the development of cancer in certain high risk individuals.
Some cancers, such as cervical cancer and some liver cancers, are caused by viruses, and traditional vaccines against those viruses, such as HPV vaccine and Hepatitis B vaccine, will prevent those cancers.
Scientists have also been trying to develop vaccines against existing cancers. Some researchers believe that cancer cells routinely arise and are destroyed by the healthy immune system; cancer forms when the immune system fails to destroy them. One approach to cancer vaccination is to separate proteins from cancer cells and immunize cancer patients against those proteins, in the hope of stimulating an immune reaction that would kill the cancer cells. Therapeutic cancer vaccines are being developed for the treatment of breast, lung, colon, skin, kidney, prostate, and other cancers..
On April 14 2009 Dendreon Corporation announced that their Phase III clinical trial of Provenge, a cancer vaccine designed to treat prostate cancer, had succeeded in demonstrating an increase in survival. This is the first robust, statistically significant Phase III result for a cancer vaccine, although the data have yet to be scrutinized by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration or by European Union regulatory agencies. Dendreon is forecasting marketing approval by the FDA by 2010
If Provenge is approved by the FDA, Dendreon will have opened a new era in cancer care.[citation needed]
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