Breast Cancer Vaccine Latest news

IrishColeen

My Mum in Ireland told me of this news today, on their News Channel, so I checked it out myself.

This seems to be very good news indeed, and wanted to share it with you all today:

www.independant.ie/health/latest-news/one-jab-can-prevent-breast-cancer-claims-scientist-2201235.html

You can also search for news on www.rte.ie, the Irish TV channel.

Best Wishes to everyone!

Anonymous

Hi IrishColeen,

Just saw a snippet on this on our news in NZ. Sounds promising but I hope it will be a lot sooner than what the news item purported it would take! 

Musical.

Hooponopono

looks like another 'cure around the corner' to me...

Mah

I hope so too. The Swine Flu vaccine took very little time to work its way through the trials, the Gardisil vaccine for cervical cancer started development in the early 1990's.  According to Wiki the trials finished 2006. Depends on the money behind them I suppose. Even if they do not work exceptionally well.  Put enough of the different breast cancer vaccines together (bit like flu vaccine) and chemo, you may get a combined effect. 

I am newly diagnosed, and because I am in my 50's, 16mm invasive ductal, node negative, wide margins (courtesy of big breast) HER 2 neg and 99% Estrogen /Progesterone positive, I have been advised I do not need chemo. I had a mastectomy.  I am still contemplating chemo as they found a 2mm DCIS and a 2mm LCIS as well in the same breast during the pathology work up. I think it is better to feel as safe as possible, to do all you can do.  I am also aware that sometimes it is best to let it be.  I am not a good candidate for chemo because of other health issues it poses increased risks.  I am petrified. Of course I will do hormonal therapy, but that seems weak compared to chemo.

A vaccine right now would look awfully good.

Jenniferz

As someone told me yesterday, ten years is but an eyeblink in the research world.....but to us in the wings, it's forever. I saw this report last night...it was an interview and a Dr. Touhy (I think his name was) said that it will take funding to get this to move further, so yes, Mah...you are correct. It is all about the green stuff. HOWEVER, on the brighter side, it does sound good a promising. If this promises to be the key, it will benefit my daughters, who will fall into that age range in 10 years.

I wonder if it will be offered to us that have had bc? As a proventative for reoccurance?

Jennifer

Bren-2007

The swine flu vaccine took very little time because it was targeting a specific virus.

The vaccine for breast cancer is so far in the stages where it uses a persons own cells to create the vaccine.  This has been done in mice at the Bowman Gray School of Medicine research center at Baptist Hospital, NC.  The problem is that our cancer cells are specific and unique to each of us.  The challenge is to find a vaccine that will benefit everyone or specific types of breast cancer.

Hopefully, it is in the near future.

Hooponopono

Hi you all,

I'm not the one who was diagnosed with malignant breast cancer and almost forced into having a mastectomy - by fear and lack of information - to be followed by chemo/radiation. 

My girlfriend's sister in law (a nurse) suggested her to have a mammo, not because of earlier signs of breast cancer, or whatever, but just because she became 50 and then 2-yearly mammo's are free in Belgium. As a nurse - you know how they are - she motivated her advice by saying something like: "one can't be careful enough with breast cancer; the earlier they find it, the easier it is to cure".

This seems to be the general attitude with most people: 'your body can't be trusted, you must go in regularly for check ups in order to stay healthy'. They don't realize that by doing this (even by having this negative attitude towards their body), they block their own healing processes - what one could call 'the immune system' - and surrender themselves to the greedy hands of modern medicine (if one can call chemo/radiation 'modern' - I'd rather call it 'barbaric').

Now, I realize this might sound like a lotta nonsense to you - because you rather put your eggs in the 'science' basket - but I'm not just a guy with alot of fantasy. For the last year I've been digging into this and not only by visiting websites/blogs, etc., but mostly by reading books (many written by doctors, who came to realize that their cumulated 'knowledge' was mainly being steered by 'Big Pharma', and people who got passed cancer and other serious 'diseases' by 'alternative means'), watching DVD's (ditto) and attending a few seminars.

I'm not trying to talk anyone into not having surgery/chemo/radiation, I'm just trying to give people some, in my view, vital information that our oncologist (and other doctors) either didn't want us to know, or didn't know about themselves.

Time for me to rap it up (again); don't feel like getting involved in endless discussions. In the end it's all about making personal choices...


best wishes to you all,

Ronald

Beatis

@ Ronald:

 >I'm not trying to talk anyone into not having surgery/chemo/radiation<

O yes your are, that is precisely what you are doing.