Despite decades of attempts to develop
effective cancer treatment vaccines, they have mostly failed at producing potent antitumor immune responses.
Not exact matches
This fashion faded in the 1960s as
effective treatments, such as
vaccines and antibiotics, became available and people became aware that sun exposure and sunburn during childhood were strong risk factors for developing skin
cancer in later life.»
Researchers working on
cancer vaccines may need to take account of these interactions in designing their
treatments if they are ever to prove
effective.
Finding ways to spark these potent cells into action could lead to more
effective cancer treatments and
vaccines.
Medical researchers are working hard to develop
effective vaccines and other immunotherapy
treatments for pancreatic
cancer.
Or if used in a
vaccine, they may be most
effective in combination with other drugs: a few patients in the small clinical trials whose
cancer relapsed after the trials responded to
treatment with a checkpoint inhibitor.