Eliciting effective tumor immunity against ovarian cancer by cancer stem cell vaccination

Hui Xu & Jun Dou et al. · 2023-03-16

Advanced ovarian cancer (OC) patients have limited benefit from current relevant cytotoxic and targeted therapies following debulking surgery. Therefore, new therapeutic strategies are in urgent need. Immunotherapy has shown great potential in tumor treatment, especially in tumor vaccine development. The study objective was to evaluate the immune effects of cancer stem cells (CSCs) vaccines on OC. The CD44