Vaccine could delay bowel inflammation and colon cancer, says Pitt research

Thursday, March 25, 2010 - 08:21 in Health & Medicine

An experimental vaccine against an abnormal protein found in some tumours has the potential to delay the onset of inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) and in turn prevent progression to colon cancer, according to researchers at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine. Their findings are reported this week in Cancer Prevention Research, a journal of the American Association for Cancer Research...

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