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The key to the technique's success was the timing of the vaccine, explained the study's co-senior author, Harvard Medical School associate professor Glenn Dranoff, of DFCI.

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Study finds promise in combined transplant/vaccine therapy for high-risk leukemia

Two of the most powerful approaches to cancer treatment — a stem cell transplant and an immune system-stimulating vaccine — appear to reinforce each other in patients with an aggressive, hard-to-control form of leukemia, Harvard scientists at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute (DFCI) have found.

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