Unlike a vaccine for measles, mumps and rubella, a dendritic cell cancer vaccine is not used as a preventative but as a therapy for patients who have already acquired cancer.

• 树突细胞癌症疫苗与对抗麻疹、腮腺炎及德国麻疹的疫苗不同，它并非用来预防疾病，而是治疗已经罹患癌症的病人。