Could Therapeutic Vaccines Treat Hard-To-Beat Breast Cancers?
Thursday, July 30, 2009 - 08:35
in Health & Medicine
A comprehensive analysis of nearly 1,600 tumor samples has found that CT-X genes are expressed in nearly half the breast cancers that lack the estrogen receptor. CT-X gene products are the targets of therapeutic cancer vaccines already in phase III clinical trials for lung cancer and melanoma.