Immunotherapy: Vaccine patch to treat melanoma

Nature Reviews Drug Discovery 17, 18 (2018). doi:10.1038/nrd.2017.259 Author: Sarah Crunkhorn The use of whole tumour cell preparations in cancer immunotherapy, to simultaneously target multiple tumour antigens to activate the immune response, is a promising therapeutic approach. Ye et al. have developed a transdermal microneedle vaccine patch that directly targets antigen-presenting cells via delivery of
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