Medicine:ALVAC-CEA vaccine

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Short description: Cancer vaccine

ALVAC-CEA vaccine is a cancer vaccine containing a canary pox virus (ALVAC) combined with the carcinoembryonic antigen (CEA) human gene.[citation needed]

A phase I trial in 118 patients showed safety in humans.[1]

References

  1. Kaufman, Howard L.; Lenz, Heinz-Josef; Marshall, John; Singh, Deepti; Garett, Chris; Cripps, Christine; Moore, Malcolm; von Mehren, Margaret et al. (2008). "Combination Chemotherapy and ALVAC-CEA/B7.1 Vaccine in Patients with Metastatic Colorectal Cancer.". Clinical Cancer Research 14 (15): 4843–4849. doi:10.1158/1078-0432.CCR-08-0276. PMID 18676757. http://clincancerres.aacrjournals.org/content/14/15/4843.abstract. 

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 This article incorporates public domain material from the U.S. National Cancer Institute document "Dictionary of Cancer Terms".