New treatments for skin cancer
According to a BBC article; a new vaccine against skin cancer has been developed by scientists in Argentina. The results of animal tests have been positive, so the vaccine has entered phase human trials and is being applied to patients with melanoma, one of the most aggressive skin cancers.
Over the next 4 years will be held the last stage of testing on patients, a dendritic cell vaccine that have the characteristic of phagocytosis of tumor cells, said Dr. Jose Mordoh, director of the research team of the National Council of Scientific and Technical and Leloir Institute Foundation in Argentina. Scientists hope in the near future to implement this new melanoma vaccine to other cancers.
Over the next 4 years will be held the last stage of testing on patients, a dendritic cell vaccine that have the characteristic of phagocytosis of tumor cells, said Dr. Jose Mordoh, director of the research team of the National Council of Scientific and Technical and Leloir Institute Foundation in Argentina. Scientists hope in the near future to implement this new melanoma vaccine to other cancers.
In the words of the director of the Foundation Executive Director Sales, the results of tests on animals have been “spectacular.” 80% of vaccinated mice were cured, while in 100% of diseased mice that were not vaccinated melanoma caught.
The results of this new development in medicine have been published in The Journal of Immunology.