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Vaccines are medicines that help the body fight disease. They can train the immune system to find and destroy harmful germs and cells. There are many vaccines that you receive throughout your life to prevent common illnesses. There are also vaccines for cancer. Some vaccines prevent cancer and vaccines that treat cancer.
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Cancer Vaccination Home / Cancer Vaccination Vaccines are medicines that help the body fight disease. They can train the immune system to find and destroy harmful germs and cells. There are many vaccines that you receive throughout your life to prevent common illnesses. There are also vaccines for cancer. Some vaccines prevent cancer and vaccines that treat cancer. Vaccines and clinical trials: Clinical trials are key to learning more about both cancer prevention vaccines and cancer treatment vaccines. Researchers are testing vaccines for many types of cancer, including: Bladder cancer. Researchers are testing how well a vaccine made from a virus altered with the HER2 antigen works. These antigens or molecules live on the surface of some bladder cancer tumors. The virus may help teach the immune system to find and destroy these tumor cells. Researchers also want to know which works better: standard bladder cancer treatment with a vaccine. treatment or standard Brain tumors. There are many studies testing treatment vaccines aimed at certain molecules on the surface of brain tumor cells. Some focus on newly found brain cancer. Others focus on cancer that has come back or recurred. Many of the studies include children and teens. Breast cancer. Many studies are testing treatment vaccines for breast cancer, given alone or with other treatments. Other researchers are working to get vaccines that prevent breast cancer into clinical trials. Cervical cancer. As explained above, the FDA approved HPV vaccines that prevent cervical cancer. Research continues on vaccines that help treat each stage of cervical cancer. Colorectal cancer. Researchers are making treatment vaccines that tell the body to attack cells with antigens thought to cause colorectal cancer. These antigens include carcinoembryonic antigen (CEA), MUC1, guanylyl cyclase C, and NY-ESO-1. Kidney cancer. Researchers are testing many cancer vaccines to treat kidney cancer. They are also testing vaccines to prevent kidney cancer in its later stages from coming back. Leukemia. Studies are looking at treatment vaccines for various types of leukemia, such as acute myeloid leukemia (AML) and chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL). Some are meant to help other treatments, such as a bone marrow/stem cell transplant, work better. Other vaccines made from a person’s cancer cells and other cells may help the immune system destroy cancer. Lung cancer. Lung cancer treatment vaccines in clinical trials target antigens. Melanoma. Researchers are testing many melanoma vaccines, given alone or with other treatments. Destroyed melanoma cells and antigens in the vaccines tell the immune system to destroy other melanoma cells in the body. Myeloma. Many clinical trials are looking at vaccines for people with multiple myeloma who are near remission. This means doctors can no longer find cancer in the body and there are no symptoms. Researchers are also testing vaccines in people with smoldering myeloma or who need to have an autologous bone marrow/stem cell transplant. Pancreatic cancer. Researchers are working on many treatment vaccines designed to boost the immune system’s response to pancreatic cancer cells. The vaccine may be given as the only treatment or along with another treatment. Prostate cancer. As noted above, sipuleucel-T is a vaccine that doctors can use to treat people with prostate cancer that has spread. Now studies are looking to see if the vaccine can help people with prostate cancer at earlier stages. What are the challenges of using treatment vaccines? Making treatment vaccines that work is a challenge because:
Cancer cells suppress the immune system. This is how cancer can begin and grow in the first place. Researchers are using adjuvants in vaccines to try to fix this problem. An adjuvant is a substance added to a vaccine to improve the body’s immune response. Cancer cells start from a person’s healthy cells. As a result, the cancer cells may not “look” harmful to the immune system. The immune system may ignore the cells instead of finding and fighting them. Larger or more advanced tumors are hard to get rid of using only a vaccine. This is 1 reason why doctors often give a cancer vaccine along with other treatments. People who are sick or older can have weak immune systems. Their bodies may not be able to produce a strong immune response after they receive a vaccine. That limits how well a vaccine works. Also, some cancer treatments may weaken a person’s immune system. This limits how well the body can respond to a vaccine. Services We Provide Get In Touch Google Map Location Precision plus Superspeciality Hospital, Hadapsar Rd, behind Undri City Center Mall, near St Bishop School, Bellagio, Undri, Pune, Maharashtra 411060, India Cancer Consultation Gynac – Oncology Gastro-Intestinal Malignancy Genito-Urinary Malignancy Thoracic Oncology HPB Cancer Surgery Robotic Surgeries Chemotherapy Molecular Targeted Therapies Hipec And Complex Surgeries Advanced Laparoscopic Surgeries Cancer Screening dr.lalit.banswal@gmail. com Cancer Vaccination Genetic Cancer Testing Minimal Invasive Cancer Surgeries Cancer Surgeries Phone : +919158050180 / +918830497317 Limb & Sarcoma Cancer Clinic Head & Neck Cancer Clinic Overian, Uterine & Cervix Cancer Clinic Kidney, Prostate & Urinary Bladder Cancer Clinic Mon to Sat: 10 AM to 6 PM Copyright © 2022 Dr. Lalit Banswal All rights reserved.
