New Vaccine Shows Potential to Extend Lives of Brain Cancer Patients
A new therapeutic vaccine has shown early promise in extending the lives of patients with aggressive brain tumors, with two-thirds of participants in a small German study still alive eight years on from their enrollment. Results from the long-term follow-up, published in the journal Nature, also showed that 42% of participants had seen no recurrence during that period, a figure that surprised even the researchers involved. The vaccine was developed by scientists at the German Cancer Research Center, University Medical Center Mannheim and Heidelberg University Hospital, among other institutions. Its target is a mutation in the IDH1 enzyme that generates…

