Cancer Vaccines
a Shot in the Arm Against Breast Cancer
Published in Women's Health Weekly, July 10th, 2008
The therapeutic breast cancer vaccine AE37 uses a peptide antigen (immune-stimulating fragment) of a cancer gene known as HER-2/neu. This gene/protein is present in many types of cells, but it is over-expressed in a high proportion of breast cancers as well as many others. The vaccine is being developed by Antigen Express, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Generex.
Dr. George Peoples of the Brooke Army Medical Center, who presented...
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