The disappointing results of the large, randomized, controlled trials showing no benefit of vaccines in patients with advanced and metastatic melanoma call for a reassessment of the development of therapeutic vaccines and the importance of better immune monitoring methodology, such as adoptive T-cell therapy with lymphodepletion.

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