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NCI Pursues Vaccines to Prevent and Treat Cancer
How immune cells are activated to attack foreign invaders While vaccines to prevent infectious diseases such as measles, mumps, and polio have been available for decades, prevention vaccines for cancer...
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Cancer Vaccine Primer
How immune cells are activated to attack foreign invaders Key Points Cancer vaccines are intended either to treat existing cancers (therapeutic vaccines) or to prevent the development of cancer...
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Private-Public Partnerships in Cancer Vaccine Research
Taxol Molecule Even though the National Cancer Institute is the leading Federal government agency for cancer research, it is hardly the sole contributor in the fight against cancer. Other government...
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Studies Uncover Associations between Human Papillomavirus and Oral Cancer
The release of HPV genetic material in a cell’s nucleus. Credit: Anthony Beal, NCI NCI-supported research is contributing to the understanding of how the human papillomavirus (HPV) causes oral cancer....
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Measles viruses genetically modified to treat ovarian cancer
Scientists prepare clinical lots of measles virus to use in clinical trials against cancer. Credit: Mayo Clinic. The Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA) is undertaking a large-scale review of cancer genes. The...
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