Therapeutic Cancer Vaccines: Advances, Challenges, and Future Directions
A special issue of Vaccines (ISSN 2076-393X). This special issue belongs to the section "Vaccination Against Cancer and Chronic Diseases".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 May 2026 | Viewed by 1832
Special Issue Editors
Interests: lung cancer; immunotherapy; targeted therapy
2. Chao Family Comprehensive Cancer Center, UCI Health, 200 S Manchester Ave, Suite 400, Orange, CA 92868, USA
Interests: oncology; hematology; cancer vaccine; cancer immunotherapy
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
We welcome contributions to our upcoming Special Issue, "Therapeutic Cancer Vaccines: Advances, Challenges, and Future Directions”.
This Special Issue solicits articles that critically analyze the evolving landscape of therapeutic cancer vaccine development, focusing on solid tumors and malignant hematology. This Special Issue will explore recent research initiatives and clinical trials implementing diverse vaccination strategies. By identifying the successes and challenges within this field, this Special Issue aims to enhance our understanding of how cancer vaccines can improve treatment outcomes, whether administered alone or combined with standard of care therapy and/or immunotherapy.
This Special Issue will encompass a comprehensive overview of the current research landscape, highlighting completed and ongoing clinical trials, alongside insights from recognized experts in the field. It will detail various vaccination strategies, analyze the challenges and obstacles encountered, including issues related to efficacy and the specific patient populations that may respond favorably to vaccines, and delineate future directions to overcome these challenges within cancer vaccine development.
We welcome original research articles and review papers. Potential research areas include, but are not limited to, the following topics:
- Therapeutic vaccines in solid tumors;
- Therapeutic vaccines in malignant hematology;
- Immunotherapy and cancer vaccines;
- Cancer vaccine clinical trials.
We look forward to your valuable contributions.
Prof. Dr. Erminia Massarelli
Prof. Dr. Victoria M. Villaflor
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- therapeutic cancer vaccines
- clinical trials
- solid tumors
- malignant hematology
- peptide vaccines
- DNA vaccines
- vector vaccines
- dendritic cell vaccines
- allogenic vaccines
- mRNA vaccines
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