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ALVAC-CEA B7.1 vaccine

Term · Oncology and biomedicine · MLC-T-ONC-010005

A cancer vaccine that uses a viral vector system derived from the canarypox virus engineered to target the carcinoembryonic antigen (CEA). It causes infected cells to temporarily display CEA and activates the immune system to attack the tumor cells.

Table 1. Record
IdentifierMLC-T-ONC-010005
FieldOncology and biomedicine
ReferencesNational Cancer Institute Thesaurus (CC BY 4.0)
Record as JSON 
{
  "id": "MLC-T-ONC-010005",
  "term": "ALVAC-CEA B7.1 vaccine",
  "field": "Oncology and biomedicine",
  "definition": "A cancer vaccine that uses a viral vector system derived from the canarypox virus engineered to target the carcinoembryonic antigen (CEA). It causes infected cells to temporarily display CEA and activates the immune system to attack the tumor cells.",
  "references": [
    "National Cancer Institute Thesaurus"
  ],
  "url": "https://mlchart.com/terminology/oncology/alvac-cea-b7-1-vaccine/"
}

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