Analysis of vaccine's schedules using models.

We present a further, yet important, step in applying Catania Mouse Model & simulator (SimTriplex) of immune system response to vaccination. In particular we show that, as immune response can induce toxicity, one can calibrate the vaccine administrations in such a way to avoid toxicity effects, keeping immunoprevention from cancer. This result increases the model's potential applications.

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