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S4E08: Learning from Vaccines: Training our Immune System to Fight Cancer

Two Scientists Walk Into a Bar

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Tumor Heterogeneity and Cancer Therapy

Tumor heterogeneity is a huge challenge for all of cancer therapy. By using a tumor's mutations as a source of targets, we really do have the opportunity to select many targets to go after. So when we vaccinate, we want to generate a very high number of T cells against multiple targets so that there are enough T cells to control and kill tumor cells.

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