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What Are Cancer Vaccines? How Can They Prevent and Treat Cancer?

What Are Cancer Vaccines? How Can They Prevent and Treat Cancer?

Update: 2023-05-12

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In this episode, Dr. Diane Reidy-Lagunes sits down with two physician-scientists researching vaccines and novel immunotherapies, Dr. Vinod Balachandran and Dr. Dmitriy Zamarin. They discuss the power of the body’s immune system to prevent and treat cancers, the difference between preventative and therapeutic vaccines, which cancers are treatable with vaccines, and the challenges that lie ahead.

Read more about Dr. Balachandran’s recent research into a vaccine for pancreatic cancer.

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What Are Cancer Vaccines? How Can They Prevent and Treat Cancer?

What Are Cancer Vaccines? How Can They Prevent and Treat Cancer?

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