Home>News Center>China
       
 

Cancer vaccine approved for clinical trials
(China Daily)
Updated: 2004-11-26 09:00

SHANGHAI: A vaccine developed by Chinese scientists to restrain or even kill cancer cells was recently approved for clinical research at Shanghai hospitals.

The cancer vaccine seeks to trigger the body's own immune system to detect and kill cancer cells. The vaccine would particularly target liver cancer, the deadliest of all cancers that can kill an end-stage patient within 12 weeks, according to biologists with the Shanghai Zhangjiang Biotech Research Centre.

"It has been patented in the United States and Australia," said a biologist with the centre.

This is the first cancer vaccine independently developed by Chinese scientists to be patented for use abroad.

The vaccine has been approved by State Food and Drug Administration for clinical tests at several hospitals in Shanghai.

Officials and patients are hopeful it will prolong cancer patients' lives by halting or even reversing tumor growth, said Professor Guo Yajun of the University of Nebraska in the United States.

Guo also heads the international tumor research institute of the No. 2 Medical University of the Chinese People's Liberation Army, which has worked on the vaccine in collaboration with a Shanghai-based laboratory on animal cell engineering.

Cancer vaccines fuse the patient's own cancer cells with a strain of antigens - or foreign - cells to produce a cancer-fighting reaction.

Clinical research conducted in several countries has proven such vaccines can halt tumor growth, prevent relapses and overcome the side-effects of chemotherapy and actinotheraphy.

Cancer has become the biggest killer of China's urban dwellers, according to Sun Yan, an expert with Beijing Cancer Hospital affiliated to the Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences.

Ministry of Health statistics showed that the death rate from malignant tumors grew by almost 30 per cent between the 1970s and the 1990s. The nation registered some 2 million cancer patients in 2000, with around 1.5 million dying that same year.

Cancer prevention and treatment has become a global issue and has drawn the attention of health authorities worldwide, medical researchers and pharmaceutical producers.

Many world famous life science researchers and developers are co-operating with their Chinese counterparts in a bid to find the most effective anti-cancer medicines, said Sun.

Data from the State Food and Drug Administration indicated that sales of anti-cancer drugs reached US$1.2 billion last year and are expected to reach US$1.7 billion next year.

Chinese doctors have successfully integrated traditional Chinese medicine with modern Western medicines in the treatment of cancer and that has shown satisfactory results.

"Kanglaite," an anti-cancer drug developed by a traditional Chinese medicine research institute in East China's Zhejiang Province, has been approved by the Food and Drug Administration of the United States for clinical tests there.



 
  Today's Top News     Top China News
 

Eight students killed in a Henan high school

 

   
 

Cancer vaccine approved for clinical trials

 

   
 

China to improve HIV/AIDS monitoring

 

   
 

Court rules on property rights

 

   
 

Dollar struggles, hits record low vs euro

 

   
 

Commentary: Facing up to student sex

 

   
  Maglev may fail choice of Beijing-Shanghai rail
   
  Chinese AIDS vaccine tested by human body
   
  China launches ambitious energy-saving plan
   
  China to calculate oil and gas reserves
   
  Official arrested for huge economic losses
   
  China to start HIV test on prison population
   
 
  Go to Another Section  
 
 
  Story Tools  
   
  Related Stories  
   
Cancer vaccines moves to clinical trials
   
Anti-cancer vaccine enters clinical research
   
Fruits and veggies no help against cancer
   
Riverside villages count cancer cases
   
Vice-minister pledges to step up cancer monitoring
   
China develops gene therapy for cancer
   
Beijing doctor microwaves cancer to death
  News Talk  
  It is time to prepare for Beijing - 2008  
Advertisement
         
主站蜘蛛池模板: 国产精品久久国产精品99盘| 精品一区二区三区在线观看| 少妇高潮喷潮久久久影院| 亚洲精品自产拍在线观看 | 亚洲卡一卡2卡三卡4麻豆| 高清中文字幕在线| 好男人影视官网在线www| 亚洲乱码一区二区三区在线观看| 美女扒开尿口给男人爽免费视频| 国产精品欧美亚洲| 中文字幕在线观看日韩| 欧美激情校园春色| 免费在线观看亚洲| 羞羞答答xxdd影院欧美| 国产精品久久久久久久久电影网| 丁香伊人五月综合激激激| 日本强好片久久久久久aaa| 亚洲熟妇无码爱v在线观看| 稚嫩进出嗯啊湿透公交车漫画| 国产成人精品一区二区三区无码 | 波多野结衣伦理片在线观看| 国产一区二区三区不卡在线观看| 3d动漫精品一区二区三区| 成都4片p高清视频| 亚洲免费视频在线观看| 欧美高清性色生活片免费观看| 含羞草影院无限在线看| 思思99re热| 女人战争之肮脏的交易| 久久精品人妻一区二区三区| 波多野结衣电车痴汉| 免费一级在线观| 草草影院永久在线观看| 国产精品美女久久久久AV福利| 99久久无色码中文字幕人妻| 无上神帝天天影院| 亚洲一区二区三区偷拍女厕| 男生和女生污污的视频| 国产一级大片在线观看| 国产综合久久久久久鬼色| 一边摸边吃奶边做爽动态|