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Cancer Vaccines: Training the Immune System to Fight Cancer

Internet URL

http://www.fda.gov/fdac/features/2004/504_cancer.html  

Sponsoring Agency

U.S. Food and Drug Administration

Description

The idea is to inject a preparation of inactivated cancer cells or proteins that are unique to cancer cells into a person who has cancer. The goal: to train the person's immune system to recognize the living cancer cells and attack them.

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Review Date

4/25/2007