cancer immunotherapy hottest theme

I hope all the market hype has not dimmed people's memories about how Prima is using cutting edge ex vivo cancer immunotherapy vaccines which, along with Dendreon, are the only 2 companies so doing!

extract from article today:

"The hottest theme at this year's 2010 ASCO (American Society of Clinical Oncology) annual meeting was without a doubt cancer immunotherapy, an old paradigm that deals with redirecting the patient's immune system against tumors. After decades of failures, this concept is finally proving itself useful.

There are basically two approaches: 1) cancer vaccines that aim at eliciting an immune response against specific targets on cancer cells and 2) immunomodulatory drugs that aim at stimulating the immune system in a more general manner (not target specific)."

The undisputed leader in cancer vaccines is Dendreon (DNDN), which currently has the only FDA approved cancer vaccine.

Source:http://www.istockanalyst.com/article/viewarticle/articleid/4279078