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Article: NOVEL LUNG CANCER VACCINE TRIAL LAUNCHED AT MOORES UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA AT SAN DIEGO CANCER CENTER
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- US Fed News Service, Including US State News
- Article date:
- October 8, 2008
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The University of California at San Diego issued the following press release:
Oncologists at the Moores Cancer Center at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) in La Jolla are hoping to stave off the relentless march of advanced lung cancer by treating patients with a novel kind of cancer vaccine. While many vaccines attempt to pump up the immune system to fight off a cancer, the new vaccine, Lucanix, is genetically engineered to also trick the cancer into turning off its immune system-suppressing activities.
The first patients have begun enrolling in a new clinical trial at the Moores UCSD Cancer Center testing the effectiveness of the vaccine. The trial will involve 700 patients ...