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Possible Vaccine to Treat Breast Cancer

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July 30, 2009

Therapeutic vaccines can be used to boost the body's immune system and help it fight off existing disease. A study at the Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research examined types of breast cancers that have a particularly bad prognosis to see if they might be treatable with a such a vaccine. Watch this videocast to learn about the study's results.

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“CT-X Antigen Expression in Human Breast Cancer” Anita Grigoriadis, Otavia L. Caballero, et. al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, July 2009