Cancer immunoprevention

Cancer immunoprevention is the prevention of cancer onset with immunological means such as vaccines, immunostimulators or antibodies.[1][2] Cancer immunoprevention is conceptually different from cancer immunotherapy, which aims at stimulating immunity in patients only after tumor onset, however the same immunological means can be used both in immunoprevention and in immunotherapy.

  1. ^ P.-L. Lollini et al., Vaccines for tumour prevention, Nat. Rev. Cancer 6: 204-216, 2006. [1] doi:10.1038/nrc1815
  2. ^ P.-L. Lollini et al., Cancer immunoprevention, Future Oncol. 1: 57-66, 2005. [2] doi:10.1517/14796694.1.1.57