title: Cancer vaccines as a therapeutic strategy.
abstract: The concept of cancer vaccines is as a therapeutic strategy to immunize the body against cancer antigens that may not be presented by the cancer itself, due to the marked immunosuppressive effects of the disease, which has been demonstrated in many different tumors.
authors.affiliation: St George's Hospital Medical School, Dept. of Oncology, Cranmer Terrace, London, SW17 0RE, UK. dalgleis@sghms.ac.uk
authors.forename: Angus G
authors.initials: AG
authors.lastname: Dalgleish
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D000951:Antigens, Neoplasm / Q000276:immunology*; D019496:Cancer Vaccines / Q000627:therapeutic use*; D015195:Drug Design; D004353:Drug Evaluation, Preclinical; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007167:Immunotherapy; D008297:Male; D008545:Melanoma / Q000276:immunology / Q000628:therapy*; D011471:Prostatic Neoplasms / Q000276:immunology / Q000628:therapy*; D016032:Randomized Controlled Trials as Topic
chemical_list: D000951:Antigens, Neoplasm; D019496:Cancer Vaccines