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Injecting Anticancer Peptides Directly Into Tumors Creates a Vaccine-Like Anti-Cancer Immune Response

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The takeaway

Intratumoral injection of a cationic anticancer peptide not only killed local tumor cells but generated systemic anti-tumor immunity (therapeutic vaccination effect) that protected against distant tumor challenge.

Key finding

Intratumoral injection of a cationic anticancer peptide not only killed local tumor cells but generated systemic anti-tumor immunity (therapeutic vacc

What the researchers found

Intratumoral injection of a cationic anticancer peptide not only killed local tumor cells but generated systemic anti-tumor immunity (therapeutic vaccination effect) that protected against distant tumor challenge.

Why it matters

Relevant for peptide research.

How the study worked

research study.

What this study cannot tell us

See abstract.

How to read the evidence

emerging evidence.

When this study was published

Published in 2010.

The bigger picture

Advances peptide research.

Questions still open

  • Further research needed.

Common questions

What was studied?
Injecting Anticancer Peptides Directly Into Tumors Creates a Vaccine-Like Anti-Cancer Immune Response
What was found?
Intratumoral injection of a cationic anticancer peptide not only killed local tumor cells but generated systemic anti-tumor immunity (therapeutic vaccination effect) that protected against distant tumor challenge.

Read the original research

Therapeutic vaccination against a murine lymphoma by intratumoral injection of a cationic anticancer peptide.

Cancer immunology, immunotherapy : CII, 59(8), 1285-94

Citation

Berge, Gerd; Eliassen, Liv Tone; Camilio, Ketil Andre; Bartnes, Kristian; Sveinbjørnsson, Baldur; Rekdal, Oystein. (2010). Therapeutic vaccination against a murine lymphoma by intratumoral injection of a cationic anticancer peptide.. Cancer immunology, immunotherapy : CII, 59(8), 1285-94. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00262-010-0857-6