Vaccination to Prevent Cancer.
Vaccines stimulate the immune system, mimicking infectious attacks and thereby promoting the development of protective antibodies and/or cellular immunity so that the body is immune to infection when live native infections attack. Some of these infections are associated with cancer-causing changes in the body; thus some vaccines may help prevent cancer.
professor, pediatrics and global health, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina dennis.clements@duke.edu.
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D019496:Cancer Vaccines / Q000627:therapeutic use*; D006801:Humans; D009369:Neoplasms / Q000209:etiology / Q000517:prevention & control; D011634:Public Health / Q000379:methods; D014611:Vaccination / Q000379:methods; D014765:Viral Vaccines / Q000627:therapeutic use*; D014777:Virus Diseases / Q000150:complications / Q000517:prevention & control
D019496:Cancer Vaccines; D014765:Viral Vaccines