Cancer vaccines: translation from mice to human clinical trials

HPV protein/peptide vaccines: from animal models to clinical trials.

Human Papillomaviruses are viruses that infect the epithelial layers of the oral, rectal, vaginal, and cervical mucosa. There is a causal link between the development of cervical cancer and some other cancers and high-risk human papillomavirus infection (1, 2). Currently there is no prophylactic or therapeutic vaccine available against human papillomavirus infection and its associated lesions. ...

A review of human papillomavirus vaccines: from basic science to clinical trials.

Human papillomavirus (HPV) infection leads to a spectrum of disease from genital warts to precancerous lesions to cervical and anal cancer and is a worldwide public health problem of epidemic proportions. Unique to HPV-related neoplasia, the presence of specific viral antigens such as the L1 capsid structural protein and the oncoproteins E6 and E7 provide opportunities for vaccine therapy. Alth...

Harnessing preclinical mouse models to inform human clinical cancer trials.

The urgent need for better cancer treatments has stimulated interest in employing small-animal models to evaluate potential drug therapies. Robust mouse models of many human cancers have been generated using sophisticated technologies for engineering germ-line mutations. As we enter into an age of targeted therapeutics, these strains provide novel platforms for validating new anticancer drugs, ...

Clinical Trials of TB Vaccines: Harmonization & Cooperation

translation of triple-negative breast cancer behavior from xenograft model to human

background: for xenograft models of triple-negative breast cancer (tnbc) to be valuable in development of molecularly-targeted drugs, careful characterization is essential to their validation. the present study aimed to validate the tnbc xenograft model with a specific focus on angiogenesis. methods : twelve tnbc xenograft tumors and 12 human breast cancer tumors (htnbc) were included in this s...