NEW CANCER VACCINE DEVELOPED
Baku, July 16 (AZERTAC). A team of researchers from Middlesex University have developed a vaccine approach which could be the first of a whole new generation of cancer drugs with the potential to target specific cancers at source. This technique could lead to far quicker treatment of aggressive cancers, with patients experiencing fewer of the side-effects which chemotherapy often causes.
World expert in biomedical science, Professor Ray Iles, and colleagues at Middlesex University’s Centre for Investigative and Diagnostic Oncology, are currently working with US pharmaceutical company, Celldex Therapeutics, to test the vaccine in clinical trials involving patients who have recently been diagnosed with bladder cancer. Initial results suggest that the lives and prognoses for thousands of cancer sufferers may improve radically and it is thought that the technique could ultimately delay the onset of certain types of cancer.
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