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by Lisa Winter, iflscience.com,
1st December 2014
There are roughly 300,000 new cases of breast cancer each year in the United States, and one in eight American women are predicted to deal with the disease at some point during their lives. Breast cancer is responsible for an estimated 40,000 deaths per year in the US, though that number has had a downward trend over the last few years because of early detection and aggressive treatment. The development of a new vaccine could drive down that mortality rate even further.
A small, phase 1 study using 14 individuals with stable yet metastatic breast cancer has shown that a vaccine is safe. Additionally, there was evidence it was able to prompt the immune system to attack tumor cells and slow down the spread of disease. William Gillanders of the Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis is senior author on the paper, which was published in the journal Clinical Cancer Research.
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There are roughly 300,000 new cases of breast cancer each year in the United States, and one in eight American women are predicted to deal with the disease at some point during their lives. Breast cancer is responsible for an estimated 40,000 deaths per year in the US, though that number has had a downward trend over the last few years because of early detection and aggressive treatment. The development of a new vaccine could drive down that mortality rate even further.
A small, phase 1 study using 14 individuals with stable yet metastatic breast cancer has shown that a vaccine is safe. Additionally, there was evidence it was able to prompt the immune system to attack tumor cells and slow down the spread of disease. William Gillanders of the Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis is senior author on the paper, which was published in the journal Clinical Cancer Research.