The fight against cancer has been until now about finding a cure for the disease, not preventing it.
A team of Cleveland Clinic researchers led by Vincent Tuohy, PhD, recently made discoveries toward what could become the first-ever vaccine to prevent breast cancer.The protein is present in about 80 per cent of all breast cancers.
The trials were conducted with mice, which have 99 per cent of the same genes as humans. The researchers reported this vaccine as an enormous breakthrough and the plan is to take it forward to three stages of human Clinical Trials. These could take 10 years to complete. Currently about 42,000 women are diagnosed with breast cancer each year in the UK, although about 12 per cent of these are false positives.
