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Cancer Vaccines

"Cancer Vaccines" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus, MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure, which enables searching at various levels of specificity.

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.


This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Cancer Vaccines" by people in Harvard Catalyst Profiles by year, and whether "Cancer Vaccines" was a major or minor topic of these publication.
Bar chart showing 579 publications over 29 distinct years, with a maximum of 35 publications in 2020
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Funded by the NIH National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences through its Clinical and Translational Science Awards Program, grant number UL1TR002541.