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Updated: 4:22 p.m. Sunday, May 31, 2009 | Posted: 4:16 p.m. Sunday, May 31, 2009

Scientists Get Immune System To Fight Cancer

EL PASO, Texas —

Researchers are reporting their first big successes in getting the immune system to fight cancer after 30 years of false starts.

Researchers are calling it a cancer vaccine, even though it is used to treat cancer instead of preventing it.

The vaccines, made by Biovest International Inc., would keep a common form of lymphoma from getting worse for more than a year when compared to standard treatments, said doctors with knowledge of the vaccine.

It's the fourth time in the last month doctors have had success with the vaccines.

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