Venuti Aldo
Laboratory of Virology, Regina Elena Cancer Institute, Via Messi d'Oro, 156-00158 Rome, Italy.
J Exp Clin Cancer Res. 2009 May 27;28(1):69. doi: 10.1186/1756-9966-28-69.
Head and neck (HN) cancer represents one of the most challenging diseases because the mortality remains high despite advances in early diagnosis and treatment. Although vaccine-based approaches for the treatment of advanced squamous cell carcinoma of the head and neck have achieved limited clinical success, advances in cancer immunology provide a strong foundation and powerful new tools to guide current attempts to develop effective cancer vaccines. This article reviews what has to be rather what has been done in the field for the development of future vaccines in HN tumours.
头颈癌是最具挑战性的疾病之一,因为尽管早期诊断和治疗取得了进展,但其死亡率仍然很高。虽然基于疫苗的方法对头颈部晚期鳞状细胞癌的治疗仅取得了有限的临床成功,但癌症免疫学的进展为指导当前开发有效癌症疫苗的尝试提供了坚实的基础和强大的新工具。本文回顾了在头颈肿瘤未来疫苗开发领域必须做而非已经做的事情。