Cancer vaccines are a type of therapy that uses a patient’s immune system (or components thereof) to fight the patient’s tumor. While early vaccine experiments often failed, recent studies have shown some spectacular successes. The goal of this IQP was to investigate the field of cancer vaccines, assessing its problems, identifying future trends, and making recommendations for moving the field forward. We found that although each type of therapy can induce side-effects they are far less severe than attempting to save the patient’s life from a relapsing fatal cancer.

• This report represents the work of one or more WPI undergraduate students submitted to the faculty as evidence of completion of a degree requirement. WPI routinely publishes these reports on its website without editorial or peer review.

Creator

• Hunter, Michaela
• Girgenrath, Johan
• Camplese, Leila
• Royer, Cole
• Hamza, Talal

Subject

• Well-Being
• Health

Publisher

• Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Identifier

• E-project-081418-102424

Keyword

• Medical care

Advisor

• Adams, David S.

Year

• 2018

Date created

• 2018-08-14

Location

• Worcester

Resource type

• Interactive Qualifying Project

Rights statement

• In Copyright