Cancer Biology and Therapeutics

Anti-Cancer Vaccines/Drugs

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Cancer Vaccine is a vaccine that either treats actual cancer or prevents development of a cancer. Vaccines that treat actual cancer are known as therapeutic cancer vaccines. Some researchers reserved that cancerous cells routinely appear and are destroyed by the immune system, and that tumors form when the immune system fails to destroy them.

Tumor antigens are divided into two categories, shared tumor antigens, and unique tumor antigens. Shared antigens are signified by many tumors. Unique tumor antigens result from mutations convinced through physical or chemical carcinogens they are expressed only by individual tumors.

Vaccines contain whole tumor cells, though these vaccines have been less effective in obtain immune responses in impulsive cancer models. Tumor antigens decrease the risk of autoimmunity, but the immune response is directed to a single epitope, tumors can avoid destruction through antigen loss variance.