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Nine Patients Received a Personalized Kidney Cancer Vaccine. None Had a Recurrence.


How do you teach the immune system to recognize a cancer cell? Researchers are taking clues from the tumor itself, selecting unusual protein fragments and putting them into a vaccine.

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