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Vaccine therapy: An experimental treatment in which cancer vaccines – proteins containing cancer cells, parts of cancer cells, or pure antigens – are injected into or under the skin, or into the bloodstream. The vaccine stimulates the immune system to recognize and attack cancer cells in the body.
Vinblastine: A chemotherapeutic agent, which is under investigation for the combination chemotherapeutic treatment of metastatic melanoma. (It belongs to a class of chemotherapeutic agents called vinca alkaloids.)
Vincristine: A chemotherapeutic agent used in the combination chemotherapeutic treatment of pediatric cancer including melanoma. (It belongs to a class of chemotherapeutic agents called vinca alkaloids.)
Vitiligo: A skin disorder of unknown cause involving loss of pigmentation in patches of otherwise normal skin.