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Vaccine Detail
Multipeptide melanoma vaccine |
Vaccine Information |
- Vaccine Name: Multipeptide melanoma vaccine
- Target Pathogen: Cancer
- Target Disease: Cancer
- Vaccine Ontology ID: VO_0007646
- Type: multipeptide
- Status: Clinical trial
- Immunization Route: Intramuscular injection (i.m.)
- Description: A phase II clinical trial for melanoma using vaccination with multiple peptide epitopes designed to stimulate both CD8+ cytotoxic T-lymphocyte (CTL) and CD4+ helper T-lymphocyte (HTL) responses (Woods and Cebon, 2013).
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References |
Woods and Cebon, 2013: Woods K, Cebon J. Tumor-specific T-cell help is associated with improved survival in melanoma. Clinical cancer research : an official journal of the American Association for Cancer Research. 2013; 19(15); 4021-4023. [PubMed: 23864163].
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