Todays Orange County Register 3-3-98
Two vaccines to make the body attack the deadly skin cancer melanoma are
showing early promise in patients
The patients had advanced cancer. While tumors shrank in some of them
after treatment, its too early to know whether the therapy will help
patiens live longer.
Melanoma vaccines-to treat the disease rather than prevent it-have long
been tried in patients, and some past studies havae reporteed they
prolong life. The new work is reported in March issue of the journal of
nature medicine.
One study was done by Dr. STeven Rosenberg at the N. C. I. Their vaccine
uses a modified bit of protein the immune system can recognize on
cancer cells.
The gave the vaccine plus the drug interleukin-2 and documented a
response by the immune system.
In the other study, researchers from 'germany and Switzerland report
that their vaccine shrank or eliminated tujmors in 5 of 16 patients.
Two patients have been free of melanoma for 18 months, said Dr.
Schadendorf of the u. Of Heidelberg in Germany
Take care my friends and hope this provides those with this disease some
more HOPE.
God Bless
marty auslander
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