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Pharmacologic Induction of Epidermal Melanin and Protection Against Sunburn in a Humanized Mouse Model
Published on: September 7, 2013
Immunosurveillance and melanoma
1Kaplan Cancer Center, New York University School of Medicine, New York 10016.
Abstract:
There is considerable indirect and some direct evidence that immune mechanisms can play an important role in controlling the growth of melanoma. In mice, melanoma can be prevented with vaccines. Consequently, even though naturally occurring immunosurveillance may not be sufficiently potent to prevent melanoma, it is possible that the prophylactic augmentation of immunity to melanoma with vaccines may eventually permit this cancer to be prevented in humans.
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