Vaccine therapies for cancer: challenges and strategies

Authors

  • Rui Gong

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.54097/0tfnsd31

Keywords:

Cancer; vaccine; therapy; challenge.

Abstract

Vaccine refers to the biological products that can make the body immune to specific diseases after inoculation and refers to biological products made with various pathogenic microorganisms for preventive vaccination. Vaccine is an effective means of disease prevention, especially for the control of epidemic diseases and infectious diseases play a vital role. Vaccines are mainly used to attenuate and inactivate pathogenic microorganisms, which can reduce their harm while retaining the ability of pathogens to stimulate organisms to produce immune responses. By injecting the vaccine, the organism can produce a specific immune response to the pathogenic microorganism, and the corresponding immune response can be quickly generated when it is exposed to the pathogenic microorganism again. Vaccination is a simple, safe and effective way to train a person's immune system to produce antibodies that can protect people from harmful diseases before they are even exposed to them. Vaccination uses the body's natural defense mechanisms to build resistance to specific infections and boost a person's immune system. In addition to preventing disease, vaccines are increasingly being used to treat cancer. Cancer vaccines, as part of cancer immunotherapy, can recognize specific proteins on cancer cells, stimulate the immune system, kill existing cancer cells and prevent cancer from continuing to develop. This review summarizes the types, clinical applications and development of cancer vaccines, and discusses the advantages and disadvantages of cancer vaccines as well as the opportunities and challenges for their future development.

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11-07-2024