20-Dec-2007 - BCG
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History of Bacillus Calmette-Guerin and Bladder Cancer: An Immunotherapy Success Story - Abstract
Thursday, 20 December 2007 Department of Urology, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, New York 10021, USA
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We review how the bacillus Calmette-Guerin vaccine evolved to become standard therapy for superficial bladder cancer
We reviewed the historical literature describing the origin of the bacillus Calmette-Guerin vaccine as an anticancer agent and its singular success as the most effective immunotherapy used against a human neoplasm
The association between tuberculosis and cancer, and the demonstration that bacillus Calmette-Guerin invoked immunological reactivity, inhibiting tumor growth in experimental animal models, led to clinical trials showing that intravesical bacillus Calmette-Guerin eradicated and prevented recurrence of superficial bladder tumors.
For the last 3 decades bacillus Calmette-Guerin therapy has remained the most effective local therapy for superficial bladder cancer, an outstanding example of successful translational medicine in urology.
Written by Herr HW, Morales A.
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