A Video Tape Premier Years Reg. Imagine if the immune system could be trained to do the same thing to cancer. Imagine no need for the painful practices of cutting, burning and poisoning that come from conventional surgery, radiation and chemotherapy. Such a time is nearly here.
Cancer vaccines are the new hope.
Not a cure, but a hope. It's simply a question of when. Generally, a vaccine pushes the immune system into fighting a particular enemy, parts of which are present in the vaccine itself. Take, for example, the flu vaccine, which contains pieces of the flu virus. Cancer vaccines are different.