Published in Women's Health Weekly, December 1st, 2005
"A randomized, placebo-controlled phase III trial of the breast cancer vaccine Theratope (Biomira Corporation, Edmonton, Canada), which expresses the under-glycosylated, mucin-associated peptide STn showed that patients treated concomitantly with hormone therapy plus vaccine survived significantly longer than patients treated with hormone therapy plus a control vaccine. The objective of this study was to elucidate a mechanism to explain this effect," investigators in the United States report.
"Tumor cells characterized...
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