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FDA clears way for Cleveland Clinic’s groundbreaking breast cancer vaccine
by: Jennifer Jordan
Posted: Dec 21, 2020 / 04:40 PM EST / Updated: Dec 21, 2020 / 05:51 PM EST
CLEVELAND (WJW) – It is one of the most common types of cancer. And close to 300,000 people will be diagnosed with breast cancer in the United States this year alone.
But what if breast cancer could be wiped out altogether?
Cleveland Clinic caregivers say they’re doing well after vaccinations
That is the goal of a promising new breast cancer vaccine, 10 years in the making; invented and developed by Cleveland Clinic immunologist Dr. Vincent Tuohy.
“We know enough about the immune system now to try these things. We have the ability, but we’re on snail pace. We need to be on warp speed pace,” Tuohy said.
The clinic partnering with Anixa Biosciences, who has an exclusive worldwide license to the new technology.
This is how it would work. The technology immunizes against a protein that is expressed in the mammary glands of women, during the latter part of gestation and during lactation. That protein, often a precursor to cancer.
Dr. Amit Kumar, President & CEO of Anixa says, “It’s not absolutely clear why, but it starts being made again and we simply have to teach the immune system to destroy the cells making that protein. Because those are cancer cells.”
Pre-clinical trials conducted on animals showed 100% of mice that were not vaccinated and got the placebo, developed breast cancer and died.
The vaccine’s initial focus is triple negative breast cancer, the most lethal … but is expected to eventually prevent other forms of cancer, including ovarian...
FDA clears way for Cleveland Clinic’s groundbreaking breast cancer vaccine
by: Jennifer Jordan
Posted: Dec 21, 2020 / 04:40 PM EST / Updated: Dec 21, 2020 / 05:51 PM EST
CLEVELAND (WJW) – It is one of the most common types of cancer. And close to 300,000 people will be diagnosed with breast cancer in the United States this year alone.
But what if breast cancer could be wiped out altogether?
Cleveland Clinic caregivers say they’re doing well after vaccinations
That is the goal of a promising new breast cancer vaccine, 10 years in the making; invented and developed by Cleveland Clinic immunologist Dr. Vincent Tuohy.
“We know enough about the immune system now to try these things. We have the ability, but we’re on snail pace. We need to be on warp speed pace,” Tuohy said.
The clinic partnering with Anixa Biosciences, who has an exclusive worldwide license to the new technology.
This is how it would work. The technology immunizes against a protein that is expressed in the mammary glands of women, during the latter part of gestation and during lactation. That protein, often a precursor to cancer.
Dr. Amit Kumar, President & CEO of Anixa says, “It’s not absolutely clear why, but it starts being made again and we simply have to teach the immune system to destroy the cells making that protein. Because those are cancer cells.”
Pre-clinical trials conducted on animals showed 100% of mice that were not vaccinated and got the placebo, developed breast cancer and died.
The vaccine’s initial focus is triple negative breast cancer, the most lethal … but is expected to eventually prevent other forms of cancer, including ovarian...