News reached my ears of a new breast cancer vaccine that is being tested. This new vaccine - which is still in the testing stage - may be able to cure those who have been diagnosed with breast cancer or those who have recurring symptoms from the disease. If this vaccine tests positive then it will be a breakthrough in the health industry.
How the vaccine works is that it gives breast cancer patients a gene that will fight against the cancer cells that have been infected by the disease. This will also help to create proteins in the bodies’ immune system - which will in turn work to destroy the tumor.
For now researchers have only been testing the vaccine on mice test subjects and it has worked successfully to remove the tumors from HER2 positive cancer. The vaccine was made using ‘naked DNA’ taken from genes that are able to produce receptors for HER2 cancer. This DNA mixed together with a stimulant from the immune system is then placed into a ring of genetic material. After other such mixing and the vaccine is then injected into the person’s body where it will try to connect to the good cells to fight off the bad ones with the receptors.
We hope and pray that within the next few years they will be able to perfect this vaccine and be able to save more lives with it. Too many women have had to suffer from breast cancer and we pray for them and their families.
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