Alphavirus-based vaccine may slow some cancers

Tuesday, August 3, 2010 - 07:49 in Health & Medicine

An experimental vaccine based on a virus that causes encephalitis in the wild appears to block tumour growth in some cases of advanced cancer, according to researchers at Duke University Medical Centre. Scientists say the vaccine is able to stimulate an immune response, even in the face of profound immune system suppression, a condition most patients with advanced cancer experience...

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