Breast Cancer Prevention Vaccines Appear Soon

The threat of breast cancer continues to haunt women. Start Now there are bright spots after scientists discover a vaccine that could be used to prevent and treat breast cancer.

"All women over the age of 40 years can be given this vaccine to prevent them from breast cancer," said Dr. Vincent Tuohy who created this vaccine as reported by the Telegraph, Monday (05/31/2010).

This vaccine will begin to be tested in a year. Currently a study of mice has revealed that this vaccine can stop tumor activity either never appear or the tumor was being attacked.

If testing is successful in one year will be carried out against women in clinical trials next year. Researchers will invite doctors to give the vaccine in women aged 40 years, the age when the risk of breast cancer began to rise.

In current testing, the vaccine can eliminate 70 percent of breast cancer. But Dr. Vincent promised to pursue the manufacture of vaccines that provide substantial protection and remove the disease completely.

"We really believe that breast cancer preventive vaccines will work like a vaccine to prevent polio," said Dr Vincent of the Cleveland Clinic in Ohio.

"We try to provide substantial protection and we believe breast cancer is a disease completely preventable," continued the inventor of the vaccine.

The vaccine material made of protein called alpha-lactalbumin which is the main cause of breast cancer proteins. The basic ingredients are the same proteins are known to be a vaccine against the disease.

In tests conducted in mice, this vaccine may liberate tumor as reported in the journal Nature Medicine.

Injections of this vaccine will stimulate the immune system, which will destroy the alpha-lactalbumin that stops tumor formation.

Vaccines are also used as an immune system that could shrink the pre-existing tumors by half.

Researchers are now looking for ways how to do injections and the provision of a safe dose that could hit targets on diseased cells.

If this research work will provide important benefits for preventing breast cancer in the future.

To be sure women are also advised to adopt healthy lifestyles to reduce the risk of breast cancer such as reducing alcohol consumption, maintaining a healthy weight and exercise regularly.