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Article: SKIN CANCER TREATMENT `Vaccine' alerts immune system Melanoma drug, designed to boost response, nears final stage of FDA approval
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- The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (Milwaukee, WI)
- Article date:
- August 11, 1997
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A new treatment designed to teach a patient's immune system to
recognize and fight melanoma, the deadliest form of skin cancer, is
being tested at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and other cancer
centers around the country.
Mark Albertini, assistant professor of medicine at UW-Madison, is
testing the treatment, a kind of cancer vaccine.
Conventional vaccines, such as those given in childhood, work in
the absence of disease; cancer vaccines work in the presence of it.
But the mechanism is the same both involve injecting a substance
called an antigen that is produced by the disease. That "wakes up"
the immune system into recognizing the threat and producing
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