Review Article

Vaccines against Human Carcinomas: Strategies to Improve Antitumor Immune Responses

Table 1

Vaccine-delivery systems.

Vaccine-delivery systems
Immunization against multiple antigens*Immunization against specified antigen(s)

Cell-basedCell-based
Autologous whole-tumor cellsDCs pulsed with peptide
Allogeneic whole-tumor cellsGenetically-modified DCs
Genetically-modified tumor cells
DCs-tumor fusionProtein/Peptide based
DCs loaded with tumor lysateProtein
Peptide
Agonist peptide
Antiidiotype MAb
Mab fusion proteins
DCs transfected with tumor-derived RNA
Protein/Peptide based
Tumor lysatesVector-based
Heat shock proteins-tumor peptidesPlasmid DNA
Bacterial vectors
 Listeria
 Salmonella
Yeast vectors
Viral vectors
 Adenovirus
 Vaccinia
 Avipox (fowlpox)
 MVA

V a c c i n e formulation includes known and unknown antigens.