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Vaccines Might Become Another Way to Fight Cancer

Researchers are working to harness the body's immune system to prevent, battle tumors

January 18, 2013 RSS Feed Print

It's just those types of genetic differences that Hardacre said will probably keep researchers from being able to develop a universal cancer vaccine.

"I would find it hard to believe that there could be a single vaccine to deal with multiple types of cancers," he said.

More information

For more about cancer vaccines, go to the U.S. National Cancer Institute.

Read about the development of cervical cancer vaccines.

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