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| | National Cancer Institute - Cancer Vaccine Fact Sheet |
 | | Cancer vaccines are intended either to treat existing cancers (therapeutic vaccines) or to prevent the development of cancer (prophylactic vaccines). | | | Cancer vaccines are intended either to treat existing cancers (therapeutic vaccines) or to prevent the development of cancer (prophylactic vaccines) | | | Treatment or therapeutic vaccines are administered to cancer patients and are designed to strengthen the body's natural defenses against cancers that have already developed. |
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http://www.cancer.gov/newscenter/pressreleases/cancervaccines
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| | ACS :: A Vaccine Against Cancer? |
| | Schlom said many cancer centers are conducting vaccine trials, and may be able to point patients to a trial that is right for their particular situation. | | | Cancer vaccine research is focused primarily on treating existing cancer, rather than preventing new cases. | | | Patients who are interested in participating in a trial of a cancer vaccine can turn to the NCI's Web site for information, or talk to their doctors. |
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http://www.cancer.org/docroot/NWS/content/NWS_1_1x_A_Vaccine_Against_Cancer.asp
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| | Harvard Gazette: Lung cancer vaccine under development |
| | The vaccine is therapeutic rather than preventive, designed to allow patients to live longer, not to prevent the disease. | | | Meanwhile, Dranoff and his colleagues study the patients and tumors that had the best responses to their vaccine. | | | "Lung cancer is so hard to deal with because, in most patients, it has already spread beyond the lungs before it is detected," says Glenn Dranoff, associate professor of medicine at the Harvard Medical School. |
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http://www.news.harvard.edu/gazette/2003/03.13/01-vaccine.html
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| | Cancer Vaccine Consortium |
| | Cancer vaccines seek to boost the immune system and are used after disease onset; therefore, they currently remain therapeutic rather than preventive and are often referred to as "immunotherapies" rather than vaccines. | | | A variety of cancer vaccine therapies are in the pipeline, but each of these must proceed through the rigorous, lengthy licensing pathway in several well-defined stages. | | | The goal of the consortium is to accelerate the process of bringing cancer vaccines from the development stage to the clinic. |
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http://www.sabin.org/cv_consortium.htm
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| | Cancer Vaccine Resan |
| | Today, the irony in the cancer world is that in spite of the great need of such drugs, they are practically absent in the medical pharmaceutical markets. | | | The possible complications which may arise during our vaccination are similar to those in the case of other vaccinations in an organism. | | | In case of the virus induced tumors it is necessary to carry out a preliminary effective anti viral therapy in order to have a successful anticancer vaccinotherapy. |
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http://www.anticancer.net/vaccine.html
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| | Vaccine for cancer finds a patron - The Boston Globe |
| | Unlike a traditional vaccine, however, the drug being tested by Therion is not preventive. | | | A success in the trial would let Therion enter the lucrative niche of last-chance cancer therapies, among the most expensive drugs in modern medicine. | | | ''Many patients like the sense that their own body is doing something to fight the cancer," he said. |
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http://www.boston.com/business/technology/biotechnology/articles/2005/12/26/vaccine_for_cancer_finds_a_patron
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| | Cancer Vaccine Discovered |
| | It may help in the treatment of the cancer, but other therapies would be needed as well at that point. | | | The vaccine is claimed to be "100% effective" in prevention. | | | Had I thought to write "cancer vaccine developed," I perhaps would have, but I'm not entirely convinced the point is worth arguing. |
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http://digg.com/science/Cancer_Vaccine_Discovered
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| | National Cancer Institute - Vaccine for Cervical Cancer? |
| | There are other efforts to develop a cervical cancer vaccine, as well, including one trial sponsored by NCI that is not yet open to enrollment. | | | HPV-16, the virus type that was the focus of the current study, is found in 50 percent of cervical cancers. | | | The study was double-blinded -- that is, neither the investigators nor the study participants knew who got the vaccine and who got the placebo. |
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http://www.cancer.gov/clinicaltrials/results/cervical-cancer-vaccine1102
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| | New Prostate Cancer Vaccine |
| | Alexander became interested in vaccines for prostate cancer while he was studying prostatitis, a painful, non-cancerous condition that primarily affects young adult men. | | | There is much less experience with vaccination in prostate cancer, but we think this is a reasonable approach,” Dr. | | | Similar protein-based vaccines have shown great promise in treating other kinds of cancer,” adds Dr. Alexander, who is also chief of the urology service at the Baltimore VA Medical Center. |
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http://www.umm.edu/news/releases/new_vaccine.html
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| | BBC NEWS Health Cervical cancer vaccine success |
| | The vaccine works by triggering the body's immune system to attack the human papiloma virus (HPV), which has been linked to almost all cases of cervical cancer. | | | The vaccine fights four of the most common strains of HPV, including a strain that causes genital warts. | | | But Dr Szarewski warned that the vaccine would not help women who have already become sexually active. |
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/2495029.stm
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| | Helping the Immune System Fight Cancer |
| | This therapy represents a remarkable advance for women with HER2/neu–positive cancers, because it effectively treats the cancer with very few side effects to normal tissue. | | | But as soon as these vaccines are proven effective and win FDA-approval, they will become available outside of clinical trials. | | | Ongoing research will, it is hoped, overcome these problems. |
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http://www.breastcancer.org/immune_fight_cancer.html
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| | Vaccine Kills Cancer Cells - CBS News |
| | Down the road, he imagines the vaccine will be used in combination with other types of specific drug therapy to keep cancer at bay. | | | John E. Goodwin, MD, a cancer specialist at Loyola University Medical Center in Chicago, says that while the work is early, the approach is noteworthy and worthy of further study. | | | Even more exciting is the observation that the vaccine is helping people who mount an immune response to live longer — and without any signs of their cancer, says Jeffrey Molldrem, MD, associate professor in the department of blood and marrow transplantation at the University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center. |
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http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2004/12/07/health/webmd/main659605.shtml
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| | Vaccine Prevents Most Cervical Cancer - New York Times |
| | An experimental vaccine has proved highly effective at preventing cervical cancer in a two-year study involving more than 12,000 women, researchers reported yesterday. | | | The vaccine could prevent at least 70 percent of the deaths from cervical cancer, Dr. Saslow added. | | | The company hopes the vaccine will appeal to men because it may prevent genital warts, which can turn into large, ugly growths on the penis. |
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http://www.nytimes.com/2005/10/07/health/07vaccine.html?ex=1286337600&en=a485da6a0c140796&ei=5088&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss
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| | CNN.com - Encouraging results for cervical cancer vaccine - Oct 6, 2005 |
| | You could speculate that in a second generation of vaccines, you may be able to treat or prevent those with further advances in that. | | | One is genital warts, which is caused by HPV 6 and 11. | | | O'Brien: Well, the vaccine only works in the certain strains that are actually the strains that are correlated to cancer. |
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http://www.cnn.com/2005/HEALTH/conditions/10/06/cnna.cancer.ault
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| | Cancer vaccine improves patients' survival - - MSNBC.com |
| | The approach is called a cancer vaccine although unlike traditional vaccines, it treats disease rather than prevents it. | | | After three years, survival was 34 percent in the vaccine group and only 11 percent in the other. | | | We now need to confirm this with an independent study,” said Dr. Philip Kantoff, a Harvard Medical School professor who heads prostate cancer treatment at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute in Boston. |
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http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6981231
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| | ScienceDaily: Cancer Vaccine Based On Pathogenic Listeria Bacteria Shows Promise Targeting Metastases |
| | Cancer can now be cured, not just treated We are not accustomed to thinking about a cure for cancer. | | | Maximize your chance of recovery from cancer - and learn how to prevent it - with this down-to-earth, practical guide that has saved and improved lives since its first publishing in 1992. | | | Based on the Simontons' experience with hundreds of patients at their world-famous Cancer Counseling and Research Center, Getting Well Again introduces the scientific basis for the "will to live."In... |
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http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2004/09/040930121942.htm
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| | Cervical Cancer Vaccine Gets Injected With a Social Issue |
| | A new vaccine that protects against cervical cancer has set up a clash between health advocates who want to use the shots aggressively to prevent thousands of malignancies and social conservatives who say immunizing teenagers could encourage sexual activity. | | | The vaccine appears to be virtually 100 percent effective against two of the most common cancer-causing HPV strains. | | | That is a view being pushed by cervical cancer experts and women's health advocates. |
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/10/30/AR2005103000747.html
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| | Alternative Cancer Treatments, Cancer Vaccines, Medicine, Therapy |
| | IAT offers the latest cancer vaccines, alternative cancer treatment and cancer vaccine medicine therapy to patients from all over the world. | | | The Clinic and the alternative cancer treatment research center is directed by Dr. John Clement. | | | We utilize the following strategies in an overall individualized alternative cancer treatment program: |
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http://www.immunemedicine.com
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| | BBC NEWS Health Vaccine 'starves cancer cells' |
| | Scientists believe they are close to developing an effective vaccine against cancer. | | | However, he warned that it was unclear whether the procedure would prevent the body from healing itself if it was unable to repair or regrow blood vessels. | | | But Dr Niethammer said the success of their study could help in the development of other treatments. |
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/2396907.stm
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| | Cancer Vaccine Research Gets a Boost - Cancer information on MedicineNet.com |
| | However, he cautioned that cancer patients should not view the vaccine under study, or any cancer vaccine, as something that can help them in their struggle today. | | | The researchers hailed the novel combination strategy as a major theoretical advance in efforts to improve the treatment of many types of immune-suppressive conditions -- including a broad range of cancers. | | | "In the bigger picture -- despite 30 years of extremely limited success -- many investigators still believe in the concept that we can develop an effective cancer vaccine," Lichtenfeld noted. |
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http://www.medicinenet.com/script/main/art.asp?articlekey=55468
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| | Oncophage personalized cancer vaccine |
| | Approximately 700 cancer patients in more than a dozen clinical trials around the world have received Oncophage in clinical trials. | | | (vitespen; formerly HSPPC-96), a personalized vaccine designed to treat cancer with the intent of minimizing side effects. | | | Find out more about results of past clinical trials. |
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http://www.antigenics.com/products/cancer/oncophage
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| | lymphoma vaccine cancer info |
| | National Cancer Institute - Lymphoma Vaccine in Large-Scale Clinical... | | | A lymphoma vaccine clinical research study is being conducted at several cancer centers and clinics around the United States to compare two types of | | | The changes are based on research proving that chemotherapy can significantly lengthen life in many patients in whom it was previously thought to be useless. |
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http://www.cancer-news.info/lymphoma-vaccine.html
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| | More evidence supports cervical cancer vaccine - - MSNBC.com |
| | TRENTON, N.J. - The first large study of an experimental cervical cancer vaccine found it was 100 percent effective, in the short term, at blocking the most common cause of the disease, the vaccine’s maker said Thursday. | | | That analysis found only one of the 5,736 women who got the vaccine developed cervical cancer or precancerous lesions, compared with 36 among the 5,766 who got dummy shots. | | | Other types of HPV, which is sexually transmitted, also can cause cervical cancer and painful genital warts. |
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http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/9609603
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| | Harvard Gazette: Cancer vaccine |
| | He and his colleagues are now trying to repeat the success of the German experiments, a necessary step to obtain approval from the Food and Drug Administration to give the vaccine in the United States. | | | "If confirmed by larger studies, these results represent an unprecedented advance in the selective and nontoxic treatment of cancers that have spread in the body," according to Donald Kufe, professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School. | | | Such studies should take a year and, if successful, will lead to further trials with about three times as many patients." |
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http://www.news.harvard.edu/gazette/2000/11.02/01-cancer.html
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| | Cervical Cancer Vaccine Raises âPromiscuityâ Controversy* - The NewStandard |
| | Clinical trials for vaccines against the human papilloma virus (HPV), strains of which cause cervical cancer and genital warts in women, show that the medication is nearly 100 percent effective, according to recent company reports and studies published in two leading journals, Nature and the Journal of the American Medical Association. | | | Leading medical organizations are recommending that all girls be vaccinated just before puberty, while a number of religious and other socially conservative groups are concerned the cervical cancer vaccine may increase sexual activity among youth. | | | Nov. 2, 2005 – With a vaccine that could prevent cancer in tens of thousands of women less than a year from the market, religious groups and reproductive-rights advocates are squaring off over how the medication will be distributed. |
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http://newstandardnews.net/content?action=show_item&itemid=2552
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| | Cancer Issues |
| | In the developing world, however, cervical cancer is still a significant malignancy, and it is there that an effective vaccine is expected to shine most brightly. | | | SUNDAY, March 27 (HealthDay News) -- With news of a promising vaccine to protect against cervical cancer, it's possible the great work of the late Dr. George Nicholas Papanicolaou may fade in the not-too-distant future into an asterisk in the history of medicine. | | | For more on cervical cancer, visit the National Cancer Institute (www.nci.nih.gov). |
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http://www.cancerissues.com/ms/news/524502/main.html
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| | Australian-developed vaccine prevents cervical cancer. 07/10/2005. ABC News Online |
| | Trials of the vaccine have proved 100 per cent effective in preventing the most common form of cervical cancer. | | | A major international trial has confirmed the effectiveness of a cervical cancer vaccine developed in Australia. | | | Trials on 12,000 women from 13 countries, which have been sponsored by US drug company Merck, show the treatment is 100 per cent effective in preventing the most common form of cervical cancer. |
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http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200510/s1476578.htm
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| | Dr. Koop - Prostate Cancer Vaccine |
| | You should promptly seek professional medical care if you have any concern about your health, and you should always consult your physician before starting a fitness regimen. | | | Read about Colon, Lung, Prostate, Skin and many other forms of Cancer. | | | Learn About Impotence, AIDS, penile implants, vasectomy, prostate cancer and other Sex-Related Health Issues |
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http://www.drkoop.com/video/93/1987.html
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| | USATODAY.com - Vaccine may extend life for prostate cancer patients |
| | Yet if Provenge were available today, he would consider it for his patients. | | | The company-financed study focused on 127 patients with advanced cancer that did not respond to hormone therapy, a standard treatment, Small says. | | | Vaccine may extend life for prostate cancer patients |
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http://www.usatoday.com/news/health/2005-02-16-cancer-vaccine_x.htm
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| | Cancer Vaccine Collaborative |
| | Ludwig Institute Clinical Trial Center, New York, NY, and Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research, Lausanne, Switzerland. | | | CTL Responses of Melanoma Patients Vaccinated With a MAGE Antigen. | | | Monitoring of Immune Responses Against NY-ESO-1 in Cancer Patients. |
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| | New Scientist Will cancer vaccine get to all women? - News |
| | But another reason, says Anne Szarewski of the charity Cancer Research UK, who is helping to organise one of the vaccine trials, is that men who get vaccinated to prevent disfiguring warts will no longer transmit the cancer-causing strains to women. | | | She feels that such attitudes may mean that HPV vaccination may be a non-starter in such communities. | | | Vaccines are producing good results in clinical trials, and the first could be licensed as early as next year. |
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| | USATODAY.com - Vaccine prevents cervical cancer |
| | Scientists are reporting Friday that the vaccine was 100% effective in preventing cervical cancer and precancerous changes tied to two types of a common sexually transmitted virus. | | | The vaccine, called Gardasil, targets human papillomavirus (HPV) types 16 and 18, thought to cause 70% of cervical cancers, and HPV types 6 and 11, associated with 90% of genital warts cases. | | | In April, the researchers suggested that the vaccine might be most effective in 10- to 13-year-olds, who are not likely to be infected with HPV. |
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http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2005-10-06-cervicalcancer_x.htm
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| | Is a Kidney Cancer Vaccine Right for You? |
| | Research study of Oncophage, an investigational, personalized cancer vaccine | | | Sponsored by Antigenics, a biotechnology company that is working to develop cancer vaccines and other treatments for serious illnesses. | | | For kidney cancer patients who may be interested in participating in a research study of Oncophage. |
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http://www.kidneycancervaccine.com
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| | New Scientist Breaking News - Vaccine scandal revives cancer fear |
| | But the link with cancer has neither been proved, nor shown to be false. | | | But the vaccine is still made in this way in several other countries. | | | There is evidence is that some of the people given contaminated vaccines were infected by SV40, and that such infections might lead to the development of certain rare types of cancer many years down the line. |
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http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn6116
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