Chapter

Cancer Vaccines

From Future of Cancer Science | AACR Cancer Progress Report 2025 by Sambif

Concepts

1. Prevention Vaccines

   "Researchers are developing new types of cancer vaccines that prevent cancer in high-risk individuals and treat existing disease by training the immune system to recognize and attack tumor-specific ta

2. Therapeutic Vaccines

   "Therapeutic cancer vaccines activate a patient’s immune system to recognize and destroy cancer after it has developed, often by targeting unique markers found on cancer cells. These vaccines can comp

3. Dendritic Vaccines

   "Dendritic cell (DC)-based vaccines represent another strategy for cancer treatment. In a pilot study of patients with early-stage HER2-positive breast cancer, injection of a DC vaccine targeting HER2

4. Neoantigen Vaccines

   "Neoantigen-targeting peptide vaccines are another promising therapeutic cancer vaccine strategy. A personalized neoantigen vaccine trial in patients with kidney cancer who were considered at high ris