Treating Cancer with Vaccine Treating Cancer with Vaccine

Abstract One of the most common causes of death is cancer. The traditional cancer treatments are rarely curative for disseminated cancers. Lately another approach in cancer therapy has been proposed -immunotherapy with cancer vaccines. In this review article we discuss different types of cancer vaccine, which include viral, bacterial, or yeast-based vaccine, protein or peptide-based vaccine, tumor cells or tumor-cell lysates-based vaccine and DNA or RNA-based vaccine, we discuss their advantages and disadvantages, and present some recent clinical studies on these topics