Bacillus Calmette-Guérin (BCG) vaccine – named for its developers – contains inactivated mycobacteria that infect cattle and remains the only vaccination strategy against the infection in humans.

Better outcomes were instead reported for the BCG ... arm. Another Phase III study with Canvaxin in melanoma patients (stage IV; n = 496) was also stopped prematurely in 2005. Patients in the ...