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Koman, this question has already been answered here. It was a fairly major topic of discussion many days ago.

You have the vaccine (or placebo) injections under the skin on your upper arm. You have them 3 times in the first month, 4 more times over the next year and then every 6 months until the end of treatment. You have 2 separate injections each time.

If scans show that your tumour starts to grow again during treatment, you can start having DCVax-L injections regardless of the group you are in. This is called a ‘crossover option’. You may have already been having the vaccine, or you may have been having the [placebo] drug – neither you nor your doctor will know. If you go into the crossover option, you still won’t know which treatment you’d been having up until then. But you will definitely be having the vaccine from then on.

Your doctor will tell you if your tumour has started to grow again and then it is your choice whether you want to definitely start having the vaccine or not.

If you do, you start the treatment from the beginning, so you have the vaccine 3 times in the next month, 4 more times over the next year and then every 6 months. You may have other treatment as well if your doctor thinks it is right for you. -- www.cancerresearchuk.org/about-cancer/find-a-clinical-trial/a-trial-of-a-vaccine-called-dcvax-l-for-glioblastoma-multiforme#undefined