Cancer treatment with dendritic cell-based cancer vaccine Worldwide

Dendritic cell-based cancer vaccines are a type of immunotherapy in which the patient's dendritic cells are used to make the immune system attack cancer cells. Dendritic cells are significant to the immune response because they show foreign substances to T cells, white blood cells crucial to the immune reaction. In making a vaccine, dendritic cells from the patient's blood or bone marrow are taken and put in a lab where they are exposed to cancer antigens. The dendritic cells are then given back to the patient, where they can help the immune system fight cancer cells.

Each patient's dendritic cells are used to make a dendritic cell-based cancer vaccine, so each vaccine is unique. Dendritic cell-based cancer vaccines may target and kill cancer cells. They use dendritic cells to make the immune system attack cancer cells. Since vaccines are made from the patient's cells, they may have fewer side effects than other cancer treatments. Cancer vaccines made from dendritic cells might cause the immune system to respond to cancer cells in a way that lasts for a long time. It could make it less likely that cancer will come back.

Dendritic cell-based cancer vaccines are still experimental and studied in clinical trials.