Aussie Researchers Say Work On Anti-Melanoma Vaccine Shows Promise

An Australian research team reports early promise in an attempt to develop a vaccine against melanoma. One of the team leaders said the work centers on developing peptides and their tumor-specific antigens as is done with traditional vaccines. But to make a cancer vaccine, he said, the immune system needs to detect tumor-specific antigens on the outside of cancer cells. The research, he said, has disclosed the team's vaccine so far is prophylactic as well as therapeutic by killing established cancer cells as it prevents others from forming. (Click here for more