Coley's toxins
Bacterial toxins formerly used in a precursor analogue of modern immunotherapy / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Coley's toxins (also called Coley's toxin,[1] Coley's vaccine,[2] Coley vaccine, Coley's fluid or mixed bacterial vaccine) is a mixture containing toxins filtered from killed bacteria of species Streptococcus pyogenes and Serratia marcescens, named after William Coley, a surgical oncologist at the Hospital for Special Surgery who developed the mixture in the late 19th century as a treatment for cancer.[3]
Their use in the late nineteenth and early 20th centuries represented a precursor to modern cancer immunotherapy, although at that time their mechanism of action was not completely understood.[4]
There is no evidence that Coley's toxins have any effectiveness in treating cancer, and use of them risks causing serious harm.[5]