Clinical Trial: Survivin Long Peptide Vaccine in Treating Patients With Metastatic Neuroendocrine Tumors

Clinical Trial: Survivin Long Peptide Vaccine in Treating Patients With Metastatic Neuroendocrine Tumors

Clinical Trials
Share on facebook Facebook Share on twitter Twitter Share on pinterest Pinterest Share on whatsapp WhatsApp Share on email Email What are cancer vaccines? I remember seeing a comment by a NET Specialist on twitter saying, "We need vaccines".  This was in response to a tweet from another NET Specialist reporting dismal data from an immunotherapy drug for Neuroendocrine Carcinomas. In 2020/2021, the word vaccine has been used a lot, but this specialist was not inferring anti-viral treatment, he was talking about "cancer vaccines", an emerging discipline in science where vaccines act as an immunostimulant to treat cancer.  This prompted me to look around and found this trial which may be of interest to you.  However, before anyone gets too excited, this is very early days in the study of…
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