Trends in cancer treatment and prevention:The development of cancer vaccines

Project Report from the year 2019 in the subject Biology - Diseases, Health, Nutrition, grade: 10, language: English, abstract: In this work the developments in cancer therapy, especially by emphasizing vaccine development against cancer, are discussed. Moreover, the development of immunocytokines for cancer and a discussion of preclinical and clinical data on specific immunocytokines are investigated as a potential cancer therapy. This work explores the many facets of cancer research from basic genetic and cellular mechanisms to the influence of lifestyle and various strategies for predictive, preventive and personalized medicine in cancer. Cancer became a big question for scientific community as no existing treatments could solve the problems related to this disease. Research is in progress but it failed to give a right solution to fight against it. However, the developments in science and technology facilitated scientists to develop new methods of treatments. One such mile stone treatments against cancer are cancer vaccines. The aim of cancer vaccines is to stimulate the immune system to be able to recognize cancer cells as abnormal and destroy them. Majorly, cancer vaccine research is in progress to develop universal as well as specific cancer vaccines.