Cancer vaccines

Ag Dalgleish

Published 2000 in British Journal of Cancer

ABSTRACT

Vaccination refers to the procedure pioneered by Edward Je (EJ), whereby the immune system is primed to respond rapid an infectious agent, by exposing it to the important antigens o infectious agent by using heat-killed or attenuated non-pathog versions. EJ used the biologically naturally attenuated humans), cow pox to provide resistance to small pox. A ca vaccine is designed to induce an immune response in a patien has developed cancer resistant to conventional treatment can who has a high probability of developing a recurrence follow adequate treatment. It is reasonable to regard cancer as an tion that has infected the host without inducing an approp immune response. The reasons that cancer cells are able to the immune system or an effective immune response include:

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