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recombinant fowlpox-prostate specific antigen vaccine 
A cancer vaccine consisting of a recombinant fowlpox virus encoding human prostate-specific antigen (PSA). Administration of this agent may stimulate a cytotoxic T cell response against PSA-expressing tumor cells. Fowlpox virus is an attractive vector because its genome is easy to manipulate and it is replication incompetent in mammalian cells. Check for active clinical trials or closed clinical trials using this agent. (NCI Thesaurus)
Synonyms:fowlpox-PSA vaccine
recombinant fowlpox-PSA vaccine
Abbreviation:rF-PSA