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Vaccine Detail
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BCG |
| Vaccine Information |
- Vaccine Name: BCG
- Target Pathogen: Cancer
- Target Disease: Cancer
- Type: Live, attenuated vaccine
- Status: Research
- Immunization Route: Intramuscular injection (i.m.)
- Description: wide use as an immunostimulant in patients with melanoma in mid-1970s (Quirt et al., 1991).
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| References |
Quirt et al., 1991: Quirt IC, Shelley WE, Pater JL, Bodurtha AJ, McCulloch PB, McPherson TA, Paterson AH, Prentice R, Silver HK, Willan AR. Improved survival in patients with poor-prognosis malignant melanoma treated with adjuvant levamisole: a phase III study by the National Cancer Institute of Canada Clinical Trials Group. Journal of clinical oncology : official journal of the American Society of Clinical Oncology. 1991; 9(5); 729-735. [PubMed: 2016615].
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