Breast Cancer Vaccine
Paclitaxel plus DNA vaccine shows promise for treatment of aggressive breast cancer
Published in Women's Health Weekly, June 19th, 2006
Scientists writing in the International Journal of Cancer report, "We describe the enhanced benefits of treating a highly aggressive breast cancer in mice with a combination of paclitaxel and immunization with a unique DNA-based cell vaccine."
"An adenocarcinoma was isolated from a spontaneous neoplasm that arose in the mammary gland of a C3H/He mouse (H-2k) (SB5b cells). The vaccine was prepared by transfer of genomic DNA-fragments (25 kb) from the breast cancer cells into a mouse fibroblast cell...
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