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Our mission is to support research efforts to achieve the primary prevention
of breast and ovarian cancers. The focus of our efforts is to obtain
federal funding for a “Women’s Health Initiative” to facilitate
clinical trials for the primary immune prevention
of breast and ovarian cancer in otherwise healthy, cancer-free women.
Dr. G. Thomas Budd, an oncologist and Dr. Justin Johnson, an immunologist at the Cleveland Clinic, are collaborating on research looking at a vaccine to prevent triple-negative breast cancer. Their very early studies in mouse models were successful and now they’ve started two small, early studies in people. Listen to the episode to hear Dr. Budd and Dr. Johnson explain:
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how a cancer vaccine would work in general
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how their vaccine works side effects the vaccine may cause
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how long they think it will take before a vaccine is available for approval
This information is provided by Breastcancer.org.