Development of improved therapeutic mesothelin-based vaccines for pancreatic cancer.

Pancreatic cancer is the 5th leading cause of cancer deaths, and there are no effective treatments. We developed a poxvirus platform vaccine with improved immunogenicity and inserted the mesothelin gene to create an anti-mesothelin cancer vaccine. Mesothelin expression is mostly restricted to tumors...

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Main Authors: Michael White, Andrew Freistaedter, Gwendolyn J B Jones, Emmanuel Zervos, Rachel L Roper
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2018-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC5825036?pdf=render