Chemicals and Drugs

Cancer Vaccines

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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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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Synonyms

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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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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Indexing Annotation

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

  1. National Library of Medicine. Cancer Vaccines. Medical Subject Headings (MeSH). 2026. Unique ID D019496. http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/2026/D019496
  2. Cancer Vaccines. In: Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cancer_vaccine
  3. Cancer Vaccines. In: Wikidata. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2378309