Oncophage, the therapeutic vaccine for
kidney cancer developed by Pramod Srivastava, is approved in Russia, making it the
first therapeutic vaccine worldwide to be approved for
patients.
At 11 a.m., on Wednesday, June 1, Edward Murphy — a 66 - year - old Osceola, IN, man who suffers from advanced
kidney cancer that has spread throughout his body — became the
first patient ever to be treated in the Chicago - area with gene therapy.