NY-ESO-1
Looks like there's a new cancer vaccine technique that may be used to target synovial sarcomas:-
- http://www.mskcc.org/mskcc/html/76030.cfm
- http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/journal/111090450/abstract
- http://clinicaltrial.gov/ct2/show/NCT00199849
- http://clinicaltrial.gov/ct2/show/NCT00140855 (Study discontinued due to poor accrual.)
- http://clinicaltrial.gov/ct2/show/NCT00027911
- http://clinicaltrial.gov/ct2/show/NCT00556881
Steven A. Rosenberg, M.D., Ph.D. is running multiple cancer vaccination trials. One of them is an NY-ESO-1 trial. The list is here: http://bethesdatrials.cancer.gov/investigator-profiles/rosenberg/default.aspx
It looks like he's accepting mainly melanoma and renal cancer cases.