Vaccine adjuvants for immunotherapy of melanoma

Drug – bio-affecting and body treating compositions – Lymphokine – Interleukin

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The invention provides methods of inducing the production of cytolytic T lymphocytes directed against malignancy or infectious agent by a mammal and treating such disease such that deleterious side effects are minimized and treatment of metastatic melanomas are surprisingly and dramatically improved.

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