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  2. Individualized cancer immunotherapy - Wikipedia

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    The production of vaccines tailored to match a person's individual constellation of cancer mutations has become a new field of research. [ 3 ] The concept of individualized cancer immunotherapy aims to identify individual mutations in the tumor of a patient, that are crucial for the proliferation, survival or metastasis of tumor cells. [ 2 ]

  3. Ipilimumab - Wikipedia

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    Ipilimumab, in combination with nivolumab, is indicated for the treatment of adults and adolescents twelve years and older with microsatellite instability-high or mismatch repair deficient metastatic colorectal cancer that has progressed following treatment with a fluoropyrimidine, oxaliplatin, and irinotecan.

  4. Cancer vaccine - Wikipedia

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    A cancer vaccine, or oncovaccine, is a vaccine that either treats existing cancer or prevents development of cancer. [1] Vaccines that treat existing cancer are known as therapeutic cancer vaccines or tumor antigen vaccines. Some of the vaccines are "autologous", being prepared from samples taken from the patient, and are specific to that patient.

  5. Vaccine being developed to fight tumors in liver cancer patients

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    Fontana, along with 35 others were given an immunotherapy drug alongside the vaccine. Liver cancer is one of the leading causes of cancer deaths worldwide, accounting for over 700,000 deaths each ...

  6. HPV vaccines prevent cancer in men as well as women, new ...

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    New research suggests the HPV vaccine is preventing cancer in men, as well as in women, but fewer boys than girls are getting the shots in the United States. ... and clear up without treatment ...

  7. Vaccine therapy - Wikipedia

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    Preventive or prophylactic vaccines; Treatment or therapeutic vaccines; These vaccines are intended to treat existing cancer by stimulating the patient’s immune system. [3] Cancer vaccines can also divided into specific or universal cancer vaccine based on the types of cancer it is used for.

  8. Putin says Russia is close to creating cancer vaccines - AOL

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    There are currently six licensed vaccines against human papillomaviruses (HPV) that cause many cancers, including cervical cancer, according to the World Health Organization, as well as vaccines ...

  9. Immunotherapy - Wikipedia

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    Immunotherapy or biological therapy is the treatment of disease by activating or suppressing the immune system.Immunotherapy is designed to elicit or amplify an immune response are classified as activation immunotherapies, while immunotherapies that reduce or suppress are classified as suppression immunotherapies.