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2001 JAN 24 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- BioPulse International, Inc., (BIOP), San Ysidro, California, announced the development of multiple Tumor-Specific Cancer Vaccines (TSV).
The vaccines are based on the company's dendritic cell cancer vaccine technology. These vaccines will potentially offer additional alternatives to cancer patients.
Cancer vaccines that have been under investigation by BioPulse previously used only patient-specific tumor antigens. This approach provides a customized and specific vaccine product for each patient. The new tumor-specific vaccines use a combination of tumor antigens designed to target a class of tumors. This strategy potentially allows for a single vaccine to be useful to a variety of patients that share a common tumor type.
"The significance of this development is that it offers the potential of an ...