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cancer treatment by personalised vaccines: is it time for a new era?
ALFRED PASIEKA/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY
THE first cancer treatments were brutal: in 3000 BC, Ancient Egyptians started removing breast tumours by burning them off with a tool they called a “fire drill”. Even when chemotherapy arrived in the 1940s, it was essentially poison that attacked cancer cells and the body alike, resulting in terrible side effects.
Fortunately, we are now entering an era of “precision medicine” in which cancer treatments can be tailor-made for individuals so they get the best responses with the fewest side effects.
One approach being tested involves the use of “personalised vaccines”. We tend to think of vaccines as a means … .
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