IMPLANTED DEVICE CONTAINING TUMOR CELLS FOR THE TREATMENT OF CANCER

摘要

An implantable device for the prevention or treatment of cancer comprising a n implantable chamber containing tumor cells, or somatic cells engineered to express at least one antigen corresponding to antigen of a patient's tumor, the chamber having a porous wall to provide, in use, a porous boundary between the patient's immune cells and the contain ed cells; the porosity of the boundary being sufficient to permit subcellular antigenic material to pass through the boundary, while preventin g the contained cells and patient immune cells from passing through the boundary.