Dendritic cell vaccines.
Cancer cells can cleverly hide from the patient’s immune system. One therapy that can
outsmart the cancer cells is dendritic cell vaccines.
Dendritic cells (DCs) are immune cells that form part of the mammalian immune system. Their main function is to process antigen material and present it on the surface to other cells of the immune system, thus functioning as antigen-presenting cells.
Not available in the US, but available in Germany dendritic cell vaccine causes natural killer cells
to recognize your tumor as something they should fight against.
It tells the killer cells, ‘This is not natural. This is cancer. You must
fight this.’ The natural killer cells then go on to fight
the tumor. It re-messages the immune system, telling it, ‘Go to work. Wake up!
Get busy! Fight!’”
Scientists at
Duke University's Medical Centre in the US have
discovered why certain vaccines
are unable to mount an attack against cancer and have also demonstrated
how to overcome
this constraint by reinforcing the vaccine's tumour-seeking capability.
Unlike vaccines for other diseases that prevent the occurrence of the disease, there isn't a vaccine in development that can prevent the onset of cancer. Cancer vaccines are used only as a treatment after the cancer has been found in a patient.
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