Amazing news yesterday! The FDA has approved a vaccine for cervical cancer. In studies the vaccine has been shown to be 100% effective.
I was curious about studies that are researching vaccines for breast cancer. I found a story from Science Daily from March 2005.
Progress toward development of a breast cancer vaccine has been reported by researchers at Washington University School of Medicine and the Siteman Cancer Center in St. Louis.
Cancer-fighting vaccines stimulate immune cells to recognize tumor cells as foreign and destroy them. Physicians believe a vaccine-induced immune response could be used to supplement other cancer therapies or to immunize high-risk people against cancer.
Follow this link to read the rest of the story.
Here is a story from October 2005 about the medical trials that are beginning for the vaccine.
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