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Passive immunotherapy appears to be an effective way to treat melanoma.

Vaccine Weekly

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2003 NOV 5 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Passive immunotherapy should soon be a recognized way of effectively treating melanoma.

According to recent research published in the journal Bulletin du Cancer, "The protocols of tumor immunotherapy have been largely developed in the past 10 years, due to the identification of many tumor antigens recognized specifically by CD8 and CD4 T lymphocytes.

"Among the various immunotherapies currently tested, passive immunotherapy (i.e. injection of T lymphocytes generated and selected ex-vivo from blood or from the tumor), seems to be particularly promising. Indeed, 3 recent studies evidence the efficacy of such therapy in melanoma treatment. For the first time, a precise immunological follow-up was carried out, thus showing the correlation between the therapeutic benefit and the injection of tumor-antigen-specific T lymphocytes, and the survival and the preferential migration of these lymphocytes to the tumor sites," ...

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