Fighting Cancer with Personalized Vaccine

If there is a way to get the immune system to recognize tumor cells as a threat, it will fight them.

Projekt Zukunft Immune One of the features that distinguish cancer cells from healthy ones is a special structure on the outer wall of each cell tumor composed of protein molecules called peptides.
  If the immune system can learn to sniff these molecules, will attack cancer cells and may even destroy them. Researchers at the University Clinic Tübingen have successfully mapped the precise structure of a particular peptide. They use this information to synthesize protein molecules and produce a vaccine from it. So far, they have cataloged nearly one million different peptides. Every cancer survivor has a unique combination of them. As things stand, it is very expensive to make this peptide cocktail for each patient. But the researchers hope their findings will soon find their way into practical treatments.