Word: cancerous
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...team of Harvard bioengineers and biologists say that they have developed a cancer vaccine that eradicates melanoma tumors in mice and slows their reoccurrence...
...vaccine specifically attacks cancerous cells, avoiding the collateral damage on healthy cells that other cancer treatments often cause. This approach may also build long-term resistance within the immune system, the researchers said...
...Traditional cancer treatments] are very invasive and destructive to other cells in the body,” said Omar A. Ali, a researcher at the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences and one of the co-authors of the study. “They do not adequately treat or cure cancer and don’t do anything to stop reoccurrences...
Using bioengineering techniques to target existing cancer cells in the body is not only easier but also less expensive than with more traditional methods, according to SEAS bioengineering professor David J. Mooney, who is also a co-author of the study...
Though this cancer vaccine is limited to use in mice, researchers at InCytu, Inc.—the company that owns the license for the rights of the vaccine—are looking to extend research to test the vaccine on other types of cancer and expand to human clinical trials...