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CANCER VACCINE SAID TO BE 'POSSIBLE'
A universal vaccine against almost all types of cancer could be
within sight, new research showed today.
Although such a breakthrough is still far away, American
scientists now have the first functional evidence that it may be
possible.
They found that a protein produced in all major human cancers can
stimulate the development of immune cells when used as the basis
of a vaccine.
The immune cells generated ** kill ** multiple, ** unrelated **
human ** cancer ** cells in the test tube and also slow the
growth of tumours in living mice.
As with vaccines that prevent other diseases, the aim is to use a
bit of the "bad" protein, or antigen, to make the body recognise
it as a target which is then attacked with an army of immune
cells.
Professor Eli Gilboa, from Duke University Medical Centre in
Durham, North Carolina, who headed the research, said: "The
thinking has been that because every cancer is different -
melanoma, breast, etc. - that each cancer has its own specific
set of antigens that must be used for a vaccine.
"We're looking for a universal antigen - one antigen to try to
treat every cancer patient."
The findings were published today in the journal Nature Medicine.
Professor Nick Lemoine from the Imperial Cancer Research Fund's
Molecular Oncology Unit raised concerns about the prospects for a
vaccine.
He said: "The idea that it might be possible to create a
universal vaccine for all cancers is appealing, but ** unlikely
** to be achieved because there are so many different types of
cancer."
Those old enough to remember the March of Dimes efforts to cure
polio in the 1950's will perhaps recall that the March of Dimes
did not close up shop when they had achieved their goal ... they
just broadened their mission to include other childhood diseases
...
-- Note Lemoine's last sentence and compare it to the other **'d
stuff further up ... I may be a cynic here, but I have said for
years that there will be no cure for cancer until more people are
dying from it than are making a living from it.
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