Progress on new vaccine strategies for the immunotherapy and prevention of cancer

Jay A. Berzofsky, Masaki Terabe, SangKon Oh, Igor M. Belyakov, Jeffrey D. Ahlers, John E. Janik, John C. Morris
2004 Journal of Clinical Investigation  
In recent years, great strides in understanding and regulating the immune system have led to new hope for harnessing its exquisite specificity to destroy cancer cells without affecting normal tissues. This review examines the fundamental immunologic advances and the novel vaccine strategies arising from these advances, as well as the early clinical trials studying new approaches to treat or prevent cancer.
doi:10.1172/jci200421926 fatcat:c2pfjfbt2fd7liwf6iev2es2nm