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A cancer vaccine is not like the measles shot you get as a kid. Instead of inoculating a healthy person against a foreign body like a virus, cancer vaccines use parts of tumors to help the patients' immune systems recognize diseased cells. Follicular lymphoma, a generally slow-moving cancer of...
The "we" to whom Bendandi refers are the nine scientists on his team at work on customized cancer vaccines. A treatment that uses a patient's own tumor cells to provoke an immunological response, vaccines are one of the most promising developments in the fight against cancer, and a goal...
Undergraduates who rush out to inoculate themselves with Gardasil, the new HPV or “cervical cancer” vaccine, are in for an unpleasant surprise. Through Harvard University Health Services (UHS), each Gardasil shot costs $154—and the full-course vaccination requires three of them. The...
? Thankfully, Robert Austrian was never one to accept the presumed wisdom of his colleagues. After World War II, when doctors insisted that penicillin and other new antibiotics obviated the need for a vaccine to combat illnesses like pneumonia, Austrian turned this theory on its head. Convinced that certain bacteria...
Re the report on the vaccine for human papillomavirus (HPV) [March 19]: With only minimal side effects, affordability and proof that it prevents cervical cancer, what young woman shouldn't get Gardasil? I understand why some people would like schools to teach only abstinence, but it is hard to ignore...