New Vaccine Gives Brain Cancer Patients Hope of Longer Survival
Traditionally, vaccines have been used as a way to prevent many diseases, such as the childhood vaccines used to prevent measles. However, scientists are now developing therapeutic vaccines that can be given to cancer patients in order to slow or reverse the progression of the malignancy. One such vaccine was recently developed in Germany and the results offer cautious hope for patients with deadly brain tumors. In a study that was published in the Nature journal, the scientists described their small trial that involved 33 patients diagnosed with high-grade astrocytomas. These tumors usually recur and progress to a level that…
