Clinical trials launched for treating most aggressive brain tumor with personalized cell vaccines
Monday, November 30, 2009 - 13:14
in Health & Medicine
The University of Navarra Hospital has launched a series of clinical trials in order to assess the efficacy of an immunotherapy treatment. This approach involves the application of personalised vaccines -- produced from healthy and tumour cells from the patient him or herself -- and designed to combat glioblastomas, one of the most aggressive and frequent malignant tumours.