Therapeutic vaccines
A therapeutic vaccine is a
Functionality
Therapeutic vaccines are a new form of vaccines that are mostly being used for viral infections and various types of cancers. A therapeutic vaccine helps an immune system to recognise a foreign agent such as cancerous cells or a virus. The specific type of therapeutic vaccines include antigen vaccines. In case of antigen vaccines, the body is introduced to a foreign agent to activate the immune system so that it recognizes the agent when later encountered.[4]
Types
There are two types of therapeutic vaccines:
Autologous vaccines
Autologous means 'derived from oneself' – an autologous vaccine is a personalized vaccine which is made from an individual's own cells which could be either cancer cells or immune system cells.[5]
Allogeneic vaccines
Allo means 'other'. Allogeneic vaccines are primarily cancer vaccines which are made from a different individual's cancer cells which are grown in a lab.[6]
How therapeutic vaccines differ from prophylactic vaccines
The concept of therapeutic vaccines is different. When a person hears the word vaccine, the thought of prevention against a certain disease comes to mind. However, therapeutic vaccines are a method of treatment. Like any other vaccine, the immune system is regulated against a specific type of target. The main goal is to enhance the immune system activity. This type of vaccine can be employed for the treatment of various type of diseases and viral infections.[7][8] Efforts are being made to develop vaccines against various fatal diseases such as HIV, cancer, dengue fever, cholera, Diphtheria, etc.[citation needed]
Therapeutic vaccines against HIV
HIV has no vaccine up until now, but therapeutic vaccines could be the breakthrough for HIV. Such vaccines would enhance affected patients immune systems to fight the disease. Many researchers are trying to develop and test therapeutic HIV vaccines in order to slow the HIV progression to AIDS. People affected with HIV normally have HIV at undetectable level, which is detected by use of
Therapeutic vaccine against cancer
Cancer is the major cause of deaths in the recent era. Cancer types and stages have enhanced with time and so has efforts to treat cancer. Currently, there are about 369 cancer vaccine studies ongoing all around the world.[11]
There are three cancer therapeutic vaccines which are approved by USA Food and Drug Administration, as following;
Provenge is Sipuleucel-T, a dendritic cell based vaccine for prostate cancer.[12] Bacillus Calmettle-Guerin (TheraCys) is a live attenuated vaccine which makes use of Mycobacterium bovis strain for bladder invasive cancer. Talimogene laherparepvec (T-VEC or Imlygic) is a vaccine for advanced oncolytic melanoma [13]
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