cancer vaccine

UNC study identifies pockets of high cervical cancer rates in North Carolina
03/12/2012 - 15:32

A study of cervical cancer incidence and mortality in North Carolina has revealed areas where rates are unusually high. The findings indicate that education, screening, and vaccination programs in those places could be particularly useful, according to public health researchers at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, who authored the report.

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Vaccine against pancreatic cancer
02/01/2012 - 08:05

A professor at the University of Oslo has developed a cancer vaccine that can prolong the life expectancy of patients with pancreatic cancer. Now he is testing a new vaccine that hopefully is able to kill all types of cancer cells.

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Cancer vaccine impact limited unless drug industry focuses on difficult-to-treat tumors
11/20/2011 - 08:18

Drug companies currently developing therapeutic cancer vaccines may be determining the cancers they target based on the number of annual cases, not the number of deaths they cause.

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Penn Researchers Demonstrate Efficacy of Non-Hodgkin’s Lymphoma Vaccine
10/18/2011 - 09:39

An experimental vaccine developed by researchers at the University of Pennsylvania’s schools of Medicine and Veterinary Medicine is the first veterinary cancer vaccine of its kind that shows an increase in survival time for dogs with spontaneous non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma. The work shows for the first time the feasibility and therapeutic efficacy of this alternative cell-based vaccine, which could be employed in the treatment of a number of different cancer types.

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