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Article: Targeted vaccine may help immune system fight cancer.(Brief Article)
- Article from:
- Immunotherapy Weekly
- Article date:
- June 12, 2002
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2002 JUN 12 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Completing an important step in the evaluation of a cancer vaccine that has the potential to selectively target a wide range of tumors, researchers at the Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research report that the NY-ESO-1 ISCOM vaccine safely activated a specific immune response in most cancer patients.
The results, presented at the American Society of Clinical Oncology annual meeting in Orlando, Florida, demonstrate for the first time that a NY-ESO-1 full-length protein can stimulate anticancer defenses.
"There are a number of vaccine strategies that might work against cancer, but NY-ESO-1 proteins are particularly ...