Unlocking cancer vaccine potential: What are the key factors?

Cancer is a global health challenge, with changing demographics and lifestyle factors producing an increasing burden worldwide. Screening advancements are enabling earlier diagnoses, but current cancer immunotherapies only induce remission in a small proportion of patients and come at a high cost. C...

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Main Authors: Michael Grant, Lian Ni Lee, Senthil Chinnakannan, Orion Tong, Jonathan Kwok, Nicole Cianci, Luke Tillman, Abhishek Saha, Vinnycius Pereira Almeida, Carol Leung
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Published: Taylor & Francis Group 2024-12-01
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Online Access:https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/10.1080/21645515.2024.2331486
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description Cancer is a global health challenge, with changing demographics and lifestyle factors producing an increasing burden worldwide. Screening advancements are enabling earlier diagnoses, but current cancer immunotherapies only induce remission in a small proportion of patients and come at a high cost. Cancer vaccines may offer a solution to these challenges, but they have been mired by poor results in past decades. Greater understanding of tumor biology, coupled with the success of vaccine technologies during the COVID-19 pandemic, has reinvigorated cancer vaccine development. With the first signs of efficacy being reported, cancer vaccines may be beginning to fulfill their potential. Solid tumors, however, present different hurdles than infectious diseases. Combining insights from previous cancer vaccine clinical development and contemporary knowledge of tumor immunology, we ask: who are the ‘right’ patients, what are the ‘right’ targets, and which are the ‘right’ modalities to maximize the chances of cancer vaccine success?
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spelling doaj-art-2063d6422adc4b1d89ff15bd2bb2b2e82025-08-20T02:16:44ZengTaylor & Francis GroupHuman Vaccines & Immunotherapeutics2164-55152164-554X2024-12-0120110.1080/21645515.2024.2331486Unlocking cancer vaccine potential: What are the key factors?Michael Grant0Lian Ni Lee1Senthil Chinnakannan2Orion Tong3Jonathan Kwok4Nicole Cianci5Luke Tillman6Abhishek Saha7Vinnycius Pereira Almeida8Carol Leung9Infinitopes Ltd, Oxford, UKInfinitopes Ltd, Oxford, UKInfinitopes Ltd, Oxford, UKInfinitopes Ltd, Oxford, UKInfinitopes Ltd, Oxford, UKOxford Health NHS Foundation Trust, Oxford, UKInfinitopes Ltd, Oxford, UKInfinitopes Ltd, Oxford, UKUniversity of Oxford, Oxford, UKUniversity of Oxford, Oxford, UKCancer is a global health challenge, with changing demographics and lifestyle factors producing an increasing burden worldwide. Screening advancements are enabling earlier diagnoses, but current cancer immunotherapies only induce remission in a small proportion of patients and come at a high cost. Cancer vaccines may offer a solution to these challenges, but they have been mired by poor results in past decades. Greater understanding of tumor biology, coupled with the success of vaccine technologies during the COVID-19 pandemic, has reinvigorated cancer vaccine development. With the first signs of efficacy being reported, cancer vaccines may be beginning to fulfill their potential. Solid tumors, however, present different hurdles than infectious diseases. Combining insights from previous cancer vaccine clinical development and contemporary knowledge of tumor immunology, we ask: who are the ‘right’ patients, what are the ‘right’ targets, and which are the ‘right’ modalities to maximize the chances of cancer vaccine success?https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/10.1080/21645515.2024.2331486Cancer vaccinesolid tumorsimmunotherapycancer antigentumor biologyclinical development
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Unlocking cancer vaccine potential: What are the key factors?
Human Vaccines & Immunotherapeutics
Cancer vaccine
solid tumors
immunotherapy
cancer antigen
tumor biology
clinical development
title Unlocking cancer vaccine potential: What are the key factors?
title_full Unlocking cancer vaccine potential: What are the key factors?
title_fullStr Unlocking cancer vaccine potential: What are the key factors?
title_full_unstemmed Unlocking cancer vaccine potential: What are the key factors?
title_short Unlocking cancer vaccine potential: What are the key factors?
title_sort unlocking cancer vaccine potential what are the key factors
topic Cancer vaccine
solid tumors
immunotherapy
cancer antigen
tumor biology
clinical development
url https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/10.1080/21645515.2024.2331486
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