War on Cancer Becomes Personal With Vaccines

Personalized vaccines may be used by physicians in near future to treat some cancer patients. The personal vaccines could spur their immune systems to attack malignant tumours. New research led by scientists at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis has brought the approach one step closer to reality. Like flu vaccines, cancer vaccines in development are designed to alert the immune system to be on the lookout for dangerous invaders. But instead of ...