ANU Reporter Winter 2007 Parish of cancer Describes Australian research into cancer vaccines.
Australian Life Scientist 21 July 2004 New trials planned for Melbourne team's cancer vaccine (by Graeme O'Neill) Reports on results of an Australian melanoma vaccine trial.
Nature Medicine March 2003, pages 269-277 Immunotherapy: Past, present and future (by Thomas A. Waldemann) A review of the history and more recent developments in immunotherapy.
New Scientist 25 October 2008, pages 26-33 Cancer special: Living with the enemy (by Linda Geddes) Reviews the changing strategies for treating cancer.
15 March 2008, pages 8-9 Reprogrammed immune cells could fight disease (by Linda Geddes) Describes the use of regulatory T-cells in disease treatment.
24 February 2007, pages 42-45 Genetic road to super-immunity (by Dan Jones) Describes genetic engineering of patient immune cells to treat cancer.
2 March 2006, page 16 Dash of bleach boosts cancer vaccine (by Andy Coghlan) Claims that cancer cells killed with bleach are more easily recognised by the immune system.
3 July 2004, pages 40-43 Hit cancer where it hurts (by Garry Hamilton) Outlines the use of telomerase to fight cancer.
26 October 2002, page 24 Cells given lessons in how to fight cancer (by Nicola Dixon and Clare Wilson) Reports on the use of T-cells that have been cultured with cancer cells as a vaccine.
9 February 2002, page 14 How a gang of thugs could cure cancer (by Philip Cohen) Describes developments in culturing killer T-cells for vaccines.
ScienceDaily 18 May 2008 Therapeutic vaccine prolongs survival and improves quality of life Reports on success of prostate cancer vaccine trials.
14 June 2007 Progress toward an antitumor vaccine Describes a method for attaching cancer antigen to a carrier molecule in vaccines.
22 March 2005 Early trial indicates prostate cancer vaccine increases immunity and reduces tumor cells Announces promising results with dendritic cells trained to attack telomerase in a cancer vaccine.
Scientific American July 2008, pages 31-37. Could our own proteins be used to help us fight cancer? (by Pramod K. Srivastava) Looks at the potential of heat shock proteins in cancer immunotherapy.
6 June 2008 Even trade? Treatment stops cancer, although it may make you go blind (by Lisa Stein, Nikhil Swaminathan, Larry Greenemeier and Adam Hadhazy) Describes the effect of immunotherapy for cancer on vision.
June 2008, pages 34-41 New breast cancer treatments help sufferers gain ground (by Francisco J. Esteva and Gabriel N. Hortobagyi) Explains the use of targeted therapies to treat individual patients with breast cancer.
31 October 2007 Kill the virus, stop the cancer (by Lisa Stein) Looks at radioimmunotherapy to treat and prevent cancer.
February 2003, page 12 T cell triumph (by Diane Martindale) Describes successful use of T-cells for immunotherapy.
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