Scientists developed a Vaccine to Treat Breast Cancer

Scientists developed a vaccine to treat breast cancer, using a patient’s own cells. To achieve this, Scientists enrolled 27 patients and separated specialised white cells using standard techniques similar to blood donation.The cells were modified in the laboratory in such a way that the immune system could detect the cancerous cells as foreign and attack them.The patients were given four weekly injections of their personalized vaccine.

The pre-vaccination samples were compared with post-vaccination samples by the scientists and its was found that five patients almost 20 person had no disease, which proved that their immune system had wiped out the tumour.

The scientific experiment showed that the breast cancer vaccines developed in this way could be effective against breast cancer. The scientific findings were published in the Journal of Immunotherapy.