A vaccine to prevent breast cancer being developed by Cleveland Clinic researchers has shown “overwhelmingly favorable results” in animals and could be on its way to conquering the disease that kills more than 40,000 American women each year.
In Tuohy’s study, cancer-prone mice were vaccinated — half with a vaccine containing alpha-lactalbumin and half with a vaccine that did not contain the antigen. Not one of the mice vaccinated with alpha-lactalbumin developed breast cancer, while all of the other mice did.
Tuohy’s research will be published online today at Nature.com and in the June 10 issue of the Nature Medicine journal.
Full article http://www.medcitynews.com/2010/05/...archers-could-end-breast-cancer-with-vaccine/
In Tuohy’s study, cancer-prone mice were vaccinated — half with a vaccine containing alpha-lactalbumin and half with a vaccine that did not contain the antigen. Not one of the mice vaccinated with alpha-lactalbumin developed breast cancer, while all of the other mice did.
Tuohy’s research will be published online today at Nature.com and in the June 10 issue of the Nature Medicine journal.
Full article http://www.medcitynews.com/2010/05/...archers-could-end-breast-cancer-with-vaccine/