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More Updates: Vaccines for Cancer Are on the Horizon. One Is Here, Another Was Approved, and One for Breast CA in Trials
The word “cancer” strikes fear into the hearts of too many, as it has wantonly taken the lives of so many. But hope may be coming.
Cancer takes many forms (100 so far), so it’s not one disease but many that use similar mechanisms to foil our body’s immune system and run rampant in our bodies. But the days of fearing these cancers could be limited as we approach medical technology breakthroughs.
No longer will a cancer diagnosis mean a death sentence, as we’ve already seen in the effective treatments now used to treat cancers. Where once our loved ones and we suffered the anxiety and depression of pain and ineffective treatments, we see rays of hope.
Recently, the FDA approved TLR-AD1, a vaccine immunotherapy for the treatment of aggressive brain cancers, including glioblastoma and other high-grade gliomas.
A new novel vaccine for breast cancer proves safe in phase 1 of clinical trials.
There’s a promising new therapy that makes the immune system kill bone marrow cancer cells. It has thus far been successful in as many as 73 percent of patients in two clinical trials, according to a report released by researchers from The Tisch Cancer…
