article_snippet.sent: The ground-breaking technique may provide a universal blueprint for vaccines that can target a wide range of human cancers.
article_snippet.sent: Professor Kevin Harrington, from the Institute of Cancer Research, London, said: ‘This study provides the first evidence that we may be on the threshold of being able to produce individualised vaccines directed against specific mutations present in a patient’s tumour.
article_snippet.sent: Rapid production of purpose-built vaccines appears possible and can now be tested in carefully designed clinical trials.
article_snippet.sent: Professor Peter Johnson, from the Cancer Research UK Centre at Southampton General Hospital, said: ‘This technique provides the first evidence that This technique may be possible to direct the immune system to fight cancer using personalised vaccines.