Breast Cancer Vaccine Cuts Deaths

US military researchers said at a conference yesterday, Sunday 13th April, that an experimental breast cancer vaccine called E75 reduced the risk of death in patients whose tumours expressed high levels of the protein HER2/neu.HER2-positive breast cancer represents about 25 per cent of breast cancers and has the lowest survival rates.

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Filed under: Immune System / Vaccines on April 17th, 2008