Cancer immunotherapy – redefining vaccines
Further reading
The Science of Immunisation: Questions and Answers (November, 2012)
This publication aims to address confusion created by contradictory
information in the public domain. It sets out to explain the current
situation in immunisation science, including where there is scientific
consensus and where uncertainties exist. The Science of Immunisation:
Questions and Answers was prepared by a Working Group and Oversight
Committee made up of Academy Fellows and other Australian scientists
with internationally recognised expertise in immunology.
Winter 2007
Parish of cancer
Describes Australian research into cancer vaccines.
21 July 2004
New trials planned for Melbourne team's cancer vaccine (by Graeme O'Neill)
Reports on results of an Australian melanoma vaccine trial.
21 April 2010, pages 1110-1111
A shot in the arm for cancer vaccines? (by Heidi Ledford)
Describes the development of a vaccine for prostate cancer using the patient’s dendritic cells.
March 2003, pages 269-277
Immunotherapy: Past, present and future (by Thomas A. Waldemann)
A review of the history and more recent developments in immunotherapy.
25 October 2008, pages 26-33
Cancer special: Living with the enemy (by Linda Geddes)
Reviews the changing strategies for treating cancer.
15 March 2008, pages 8-9
Reprogrammed immune cells could fight disease (by Linda Geddes)
Describes the use of regulatory T-cells in disease treatment.
24 February 2007, pages 42-45
Genetic road to super-immunity (by Dan Jones)
Describes genetic engineering of patient immune cells to treat cancer.
2 March 2006, page 16
Dash of bleach boosts cancer vaccine (by Andy Coghlan)
Claims that cancer cells killed with bleach are more easily recognised by the immune system.
3 July 2004, pages 40-43
Hit cancer where it hurts (by Garry Hamilton)
Outlines the use of telomerase to fight cancer.
26 October 2002, page 24
Cells given lessons in how to fight cancer (by Nicola Dixon and Clare Wilson)
Reports on the use of T-cells that have been cultured with cancer cells as a vaccine.
9 February 2002, page 14
How a gang of thugs could cure cancer (by Philip Cohen)
Describes developments in culturing killer T-cells for vaccines.
18 May 2008
Therapeutic vaccine prolongs survival and improves quality of life
Reports on success of prostate cancer vaccine trials.
14 June 2007
Progress toward an antitumor vaccine
Describes a method for attaching cancer antigen to a carrier molecule in vaccines.
22 March 2005
Early trial indicates prostate cancer vaccine increases immunity and reduces tumor cells
Announces promising results with dendritic cells trained to attack telomerase in a cancer vaccine.
July 2008, pages 31-37.
Could our own proteins be used to help us fight cancer? (by Pramod K. Srivastava)
Looks at the potential of heat shock proteins in cancer immunotherapy.
6 June 2008
Even trade? Treatment stops cancer, although it may make you go blind (by Lisa Stein, Nikhil Swaminathan, Larry Greenemeier and Adam Hadhazy)
Describes the effect of immunotherapy for cancer on vision.
June 2008, pages 34-41
New breast cancer treatments help sufferers gain ground (by Francisco J. Esteva and Gabriel N. Hortobagyi)
Explains the use of targeted therapies to treat individual patients with breast cancer.
31 October 2007
Kill the virus, stop the cancer (by Lisa Stein)
Looks at radioimmunotherapy to treat and prevent cancer.
February 2003, page 12
T cell triumph (by Diane Martindale)
Describes successful use of T-cells for immunotherapy.
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