Cancer vaccination progress

The application of ‘new’ and ‘recognized’ tumour antigens in vaccination strategies that target CD8+ and CD4+ T-cell responses, and the mechanisms by which these and other effector cells are activated or respond, were discussed at the second ‘Progress in Vaccination Against Cancer’ meeting, held at the Nottingham Trent Djanogly Conference Centre, Nottingham, UK, from 18–20 July 2002.