Lymphoma Treatment - There could soon be a vaccine that is custom-made to fight certain cancers

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There could soon be a vaccine that is custom-made to fight certain cancers

For years people have been receiving vaccines to fight infectious diseases that were once thought of as killers, such as polio. A vaccine is something that gets the immune system to respond by making antibodies to fight the foreign invader. Today scientists are removing cancer cells from people with certain types of lymphoma and creating customized vaccines right from the tumor cells themselves. This vaccine potentially triggers the immune system to create antibodies that go after the cancer. This revolutionary technique, which has shown promising early results in research studies, may be available in the very near future.

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