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Saturday, August 30, 2008

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Hope for a New Anti-Cancer Vaccine

In the search for cancer vaccines, researchers are often foiled by the lack of antigens - proteins, usually, that generate antibodies and can cause an immune response - that are tumor-specific and not found elsewhere in the body. If a patient is immunized with antigens that the body also expresses somewhere else, autoimmune complications can result.

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