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Researchers and medical experts have expressed hopes of a major breakthrough in cancer treatment soon with the development of vaccines for various forms of the disease. During a three-day international conference on environmental parasitology and community healthcare initiatives in Agra recently, E.P. Cohen of the University of Illinois presented his research papers on why cancer vaccines don’t work and what can be done. Raising hopes for complete cure of cancer, he told experts about the recent discovery of the DNA-based vaccines.

Cohen detailed a unique technique that enables tumour vaccines to be prepared from DNA derived from small amount of tumour tissue, facilitating treatment when the disease is still microscopic and the cancer is most amenable to immune-based therapy. Extensive pre-clinical studies in animals have established the validity of this approach.