Tuesday 7 January 2014

Recurrent ovarian cancers respond to cancer vaccine after “reprogramming” with decitabine

Treatment with the drug decitabine prior to administration of chemotherapy and a cancer vaccine yielded clinical benefit for women with recurrent ovarian cancer, suggesting that this combinatorial chemoimmunotherapy may provide a new treatment option for patients with this disease, according to a study published in Cancer Immunology Research. Read more here.

Study mentioned: Odunsi K, et al. Epigenetic Potentiation of NY-ESO-1 Vaccine Therapy in Human Ovarian Cancer. Cancer Immunol Res. January 2014; 2(1):37-49.

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