Peptide-based strategies have received an enormous amount of attention because of their
specificity and applicability. Their specificity and tumor-targeting ability are applied to …

Cancer incidence and mortality rates are increasing annually. Treatment with surgery,
chemotherapy and radiation therapy (RT) is unsatisfactory because many patients have …

Cancer is the second leading cause of death worldwide, and the search for specialised
therapy options has been a challenge for decades. The emergence of active targeted …

Peptide vaccines have shown great potential in cancer immunotherapy by targeting tumor
antigens and activating the patient's immune system to mount a specific response against …

Highlights•Peptide cancer vaccines are safe, but have low therapeutic effect.•New epitopes
are being discovered through genomics, peptidomics, and bioinformatics.•High throughput …

Highlights•The recent findings in basic immunology revisit the use of peptide vaccine for
cancer.•Peptide size, formulation and delivery route are critical for peptide vaccine …

Background Nowadays, conventional medical treatments such as surgery, radiotherapy, and
chemotherapy cannot cure all types of cancer. A promising approach to treat solid tumors is …

Highlights•Peptides from three distinct groups are important for cancer therapy and
diagnostics.•Anticancer peptides are most frequently mimics of natural proteins and …

Many new therapies are currently being used to treat cancer. Among these new methods,
chemotherapy based on peptides has been of great interest due to the unique advantages …

The approach of peptide-based anticancer vaccination has proven the ability to induce
cancer-specific immune responses in multiple studies for various cancer entities. However …