New cancer vaccines show clinical promise

Nature Reviews Drug Discovery 16, 519 (2017). doi:10.1038/nrd.2017.150 Author: Asher Mullard Personalized cancer vaccines can help to stave off melanoma, suggested two phase I clinical trials published in Nature. The findings buoyed an emerging field that is using neoantigens — antigens that are unique to each patient's cancer — to prime the immune system to
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