CANCER vaccines tailored to an individual patient boost their chance of survival after kidney tumours are removed.
The only way to treat kidney cancers is to remove all or part of the kidney. But in half the cases, the tumour reappears within five years. To get the body to attack and destroy any cancer cells after surgery, Dieter Jocham’s team at the University of Lübeck Medical School in Germany made a vaccine for each patient based on the patient’s own tumour cells. They gave 177 patients six injections of the vaccine at monthly intervals after surgery. Only two suffered side…
