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ALVAC-CEA B7.1 Vaccine
A cancer vaccine that uses a viral vector system derived from the canarypox virus engineered to target the carcinoembryonic antigen (CEA). It causes infected cells to temporarily display CEA and activates the immune system to attack the tumor cells. (NCI Thesaurus)
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