ABSTRACT
The race to cure communicable diseases is at a feverish pace with pending u and AIDS epidemics; however, humankind’s greatest threat of all may reside in its own DNA. According to the World Health Organization, in 2005, cancer was only second to cardiovascular disease as the highest killer among the noncommunicable diseases, responsible for 7.6 million deaths worldwide. Until
16.1 Introduction ......................................................................................................................... 481 16.1.1 Cancer Vaccines ..................................................................................................... 481 16.1.2 The Immune Response to Tumor Antigens ............................................................ 483 16.1.3 L. monocytogenes and the Cellular Immune Response .........................................484
