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Vaccines in Clinical trials: Cancer
Expert Reviews Ltd, June 2011, Pages: 210
Cancer is the second leading cause of death in the Western world after cardiovascular disease. Despite considerable progress in cancer research, there is still no cure and primary treatment of involves surgery, removal of the draining lymph nodes, radiotherapy, hormone therapy and treatment with cytotoxic drugs.
Advances in the identification and understanding of antigens, cytokines, the molecular events that trigger oncogenesis and the immune system has brought immunotherapy or vaccines against cancer back to the forefront of treatment of this disease. This Special Focus Issue of the peer-reviewed journal Expert Review of Vaccines includes a range of 12 fascinating review-length articles on cancer vaccines in clinical trials that should not be missed by immunologists, oncologists and clinicians working in this ever more exciting field.
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