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Abstract
Vaccines or candidate vaccines designed to prevent or treat cancer. Vaccines are produced using the patient's own whole tumor cells as the source of antigens, or using tumor-specific antigens, often recombinantly produced.
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9 entry terms
- Cancer Vaccine
- Neoplasm Vaccines
- Tumor Vaccine
- Tumor Vaccines
- Vaccines, Cancer
- Vaccines, Neoplasm
- Vaccines, Tumor
- Vaccine, Cancer
- Vaccine, Tumor
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Aspects Covered
26 allowable subheadings
Indexed with the subheadings administration & dosage, adverse effects, agonists, analysis, antagonists & inhibitors, biosynthesis, blood, cerebrospinal fluid, chemical synthesis, chemistry, classification, economics, genetics, history, immunology, isolation & purification, metabolism, pharmacokinetics, pharmacology, poisoning, radiation effects, standards, supply & distribution, therapeutic use, toxicity, urine.
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coord IM with specific cancer histol type (IM) + organ/neopl precoord (IM)
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Previous Indexing
- Vaccines (1971-1996)
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QZ 250
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References
- National Library of Medicine. Cancer Vaccines. Medical Subject Headings (MeSH). 2026. Unique ID D019496. http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/2026/D019496
- Cancer Vaccines. In: Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cancer_vaccine
- Cancer Vaccines. In: Wikidata. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2378309