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Vaccine 'trains' the body to fight skin cancer

(Pocono Record) UPDATED 2009-07-02

A new treatment designed to "train" the body to fight skin cancer has shown some promise in a recent study. The drug is called a cancer vaccine, though it's used to fight the disease rather than prevent it. It contains a substance found on the surface of many skin cancer cells, and is designed to help the immune system recognize this as a threat and provoke it to attack. In a recent late-stage clinical trial, the vaccine doubled the number of patients whose tumors shrank, and extended the time until their cancer worsened by about six weeks. Read full story >

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