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Cancer Vaccine

A preliminary study suggests a vaccine shows promise in treating some types of ovarian and advanced breast cancers.

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" A woman who -- advanced breast cancer is apparently cancer free nearly four years after taking an experimental vaccine developed by the National Cancer Institute. -- vaccine was used on 26 patients who had breast or ovarian cancers that had spread to other parts of the body. Most had exhausted all other forms of treatment. Overall cancer returned in patients within about two months and median survival was about fourteen to fifteen months. But one patient remains cancer free researchers say this small victory gives them hope the vaccine could work for other patients."

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