title: Prospects of vaccines against cancer in man.
abstract: Preventive immunization is the cheapest and most effective approach to the management of epidemic disease. Certain forms of cancer, including Burkitt's lymphoma, carcinoma of the cervix, primary liver cancer, acute leukaemia and breast cancer show many characteristics of epidemic disease, and the possibility of producing preventive vaccine against these conditions merits serious consideration.
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001943:Breast Neoplasms / Q000517:prevention & control; D002051:Burkitt Lymphoma / Q000517:prevention & control; D005260:Female; D006515:Hepatitis B virus / Q000276:immunology; D006564:Herpesviridae / Q000276:immunology; D004854:Herpesvirus 4, Human / Q000276:immunology; D006801:Humans; D007938:Leukemia / Q000517:prevention & control; D008113:Liver Neoplasms / Q000517:prevention & control; D008325:Mammary Neoplasms, Experimental; D008324:Mammary Tumor Virus, Mouse / Q000276:immunology; D051379:Mice; D012190:Retroviridae / Q000276:immunology; D014412:Tumor Virus Infections / Q000517:prevention & control*; D002583:Uterine Cervical Neoplasms / Q000517:prevention & control; D014765:Viral Vaccines / Q000627:therapeutic use*
chemical_list: D014765:Viral Vaccines