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Enuma_Elish
May31-09, 09:10 PM
At a cancer conference Sunday, researchers said one such vaccine kept a common form of lymphoma from worsening for more than a year. That's huge in this field, where progress is glacial and success with a new treatment is often measured in weeks or even days.

Experimental vaccines against three other cancers prostate, the deadly skin disease melanoma and an often fatal childhood tumor called neuroblastoma also gave positive results in late-stage testing in recent weeks, after decades of struggles in the lab.

http://health.yahoo.com/news/ap/us_med_cancer_vaccines.html