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Emergent tissue economies: Immunotherapy and the value of cancer tissue


Emergent tissue economies: Immunotherapy and the value of cancer tissue
The Medical Anthropology Seminar of the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine  (LSHTM) seeks to bring together anthropologists working at the intersections of (public) health and medicine. 
Join us for this webinar with Henry Llewellyn and Q&A, and stay around for an “informal chat” at the end of the session. 
 
Abstract
Personalised immunotherapies in cancer include vaccines made with antigens taken from patients’ own tumours that are harvested by surgery.  Their rationale is easily understood by patients by combining their tumour tissue with their immune cells, the vaccine equips their own immune systems with the capabilities to recognise and target their own tumour a means of enhancing the body’s “natural defence” against cancer.  Having drawn significant gains from recent advances in immunology, such vaccines hold considerable promise among c ....

Henry Llewellyn , Catherine Waldby , Medical Anthropology Seminar , London School , Tropical Medicine , ஹென்றி லெவெலின் , மருத்துவ மானுடவியல் கருத்தரங்கு , லண்டன் பள்ளி , வெப்பமண்டல மருந்து ,