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Cancer vaccines could eliminate tumours

05-Jul-2017

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Researchers have been trying to find ways to ramp up the immune response to tumours.

Two new techniques involve making a personalised vaccine that targets many of a person’s cancer molecules at once.

Tumours did not occur in two thirds of people with skin cancer in trial.

The study was published in the Nature journal.

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Catherine Wu

Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School and Associate Physician of Medical Oncology at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute.

Cornelis Melief

Professor at Leiden University Medical Center.

Leiden University Medical Center (LUMC)

Medical center at Leiden University.

Nature

Scientific journal covering research from a variety of academic disciplines, mostly in science and technology

Ugur Sahin

Professor Medicine at University of Mainz and Co-Founder and CEO of BioNTech.

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Cancer