Broad Audience Title

Creating a Cancer Vaccine that Targets Tumors Through Use of Cancer-Specific Proteins

Scientific Title

Conjugation of Peptides to Nanoparticles for Creation of Targeted Cancer Nanovaccines

By Raveena Krishani Dookhan
Biomedicine/Biosystems
iCons Year 4
2021
Creating a Cancer Vaccine that Targets Tumors Through Use of Cancer-Specific Proteins
Executive Summary 

An article that reiterates the need to create cancer treatments and introduces the tumor microenvironment, a new understanding of cancer that will guide the creation of future cancer treatments. Also introduced is one treatment that makes use of the tumor microenvironment, targeted cancer nanovaccines.

Problem Keywords 
cancer
cancer treatment
treatment
tumors
Scientific Keywords 
nanovaccine
tumor microenvironment
nanoparticles

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