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Jul 2019
Vaccine ‘supercharges immune system’, destroying ‘up to 60% of hard-to-treat tumours in the breast and lungs
Scientists in the States have developed a vaccine that boosts a patient’s cancer-fighting cells, allowing more of them to penetrate stubborn tumours. When cancer-ridden mice were given the vaccine alongside CAR-T cell therapy (which involves programming a patient’s immune cells to destroy tumours) the treatment combination completely eradicated solid tumours in 60 per cent of…
