As far as I'm concerned, they can't get there fast enough! Love, Joicy
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SPECIAL REPORT 1999: Closing In on Cancer Vaccines: The First
Are Likely to Be for Treatment, not Prevention
[01/05/99; Washington Post]
The first of several experimental cancer vaccines may be
considered by the Food and Drug Administration for approval
sometime this year, a step toward fulfilling scientists'
longstanding dream of enlisting the body's immune system to
fight malignant tumors.
>From colon cancer and malignant melanoma to breast and prostate
cancer, scientists are manipulating tumor cells to design
treatments that will target the patient's cancer much as a vaccine
provokes an immune response to infection. Rather than prevent
disease, these cancer vaccines are being used to treat patients,
by mounting a specific immunological defense against malignant
cells in the body.
The full article can be found at:
http://washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/WPlate/1999-01/05/019l-010599-idx.html
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