Mike Huckman submits: Tuesday morning, a little biotech company, Antigenics (AGEN), announced that Russia has approved its kidney
cancer drug, Oncophage. It's the first so-called therapeutic cancer
vaccine to win full-out approval anywhere in the world.
This
is not a traditional preventive vaccine where you'd get a shot to stave
off coming down with something. Therapeutic means you'd unfortunately
have to get the cancer first and then your own cells are mixed with the
"vaccine" to empower your body's immune system to fight off the
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