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Closing: Clinical Applications of Therapeutic Vaccines in the Near Future

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The new technology available for vaccine development allows clinicians to administer vaccines to treat chronic diseases, such as dementia and high blood pressure. A vaccine for Alzheimer’s disease targeting the amyloid β and tau proteins and a high blood pressure vaccine targeting the renin-angiotensin system have been developed and advanced to clinical trials. When these vaccines are established in the future as therapeutic options for chronic diseases, their administration several times a year will replace a daily medication. Since social security expenses have increased along with social problems in our country, which has seen rapid increases in the aging population, these vaccines may provide cost benefits. Furthermore, improvements in medicine adherence might be achieved as a clinical merit of the vaccine treatment for chronic diseases. Because the number of aging patients using multiple drugs (polypharmacy) has increased, the management of administered drugs requires extensive human resources. If a vaccine for chronic diseases can decrease the number of drugs taken by patients, it will contribute to improvements in social problems. Moreover, an anti-inflammatory cytokine vaccine has been developed for chronic inflammatory diseases, which will be able to replace antibody therapy in the future.

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Nakagami, H., Morishita, R. (2019). Closing: Clinical Applications of Therapeutic Vaccines in the Near Future. In: Nakagami, H. (eds) Therapeutic Vaccines as Novel Immunotherapy. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-32-9628-2_8

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