A media release issued earlier today by Barvarian Nordic (the developer of Prostvac®) gives us an inkling of where we may be headed in the development of combination therapies for the management of late stage (and maybe even earlier stage) forms of prostate cancer. … READ MORE …
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So this won’t be that important to most prostate cancer patients, but it is worth noticing that the world’s first cancer immunotherapeutic agent (vitespen or Oncophage®) got approved yesterday — in Russia, for the treatmment of kidney cancer. Hopefully it is a sign of the times. Oncophage is made by an American company, Antigenics, based in New York. It should give Dendreon and others hope for the future.
And an aside … The term “cancer vaccine” can be very misleading. This term appears to imply that a product prevents a specific cancer from making you sick (like a chickenpox vaccine or an influenza vaccine). However, the vast majority of cancer immunotherapeutics (a term we prefer) work by stopping (or at least delaying the progression of) specific cancers after they have first occurred.
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