Showing posts with label cancer vaccine. Show all posts
Showing posts with label cancer vaccine. Show all posts

Saturday, January 7, 2012

Military saving lives through BREAST CANCER VACCINE

Dr Peoples: Army Col. & Head of Cancer Vaccine Development Program
Antonio Military Medical Center has announced progress on a vaccine for breast cancer! They claim this is the first cancer vaccine that is targeting patients who are still healthy, ie. not end-stage, and therefore with immune systems healthy enough to effect change.
The concept behind the vaccine trains the immune system to kill those cells that over-express the protein cancer scholars recognize as HER2/Nue. In a trial of 200 patients with lower levels of HER2 success with the vaccine was credited as a 50% decrease of recurrence. A smaller trial of 60 patients who's cancer expressed high levels of HER2 proved a 100% success rate in eliminating recurrence. Not one patient in this group got that cancer back.
(This group of received the vaccine and Herceptin)
I wonder what would have happened to me if I got vaccine E-75 along with my Herceptin. Would I be an oncology patient again? See, my HER2 status went from positive to negative- a reversal seen in as few as 20% of patients treated with Herceptin. So, in theory, Herceptin performed perfectly for me. It stopped the cancer from feeding off the HER2 protein. I would guess that E-75 wouldn't have done anything for me, but I would like to talk to these people anyway. I would like them to take a look at my case and hypothesize what might have happened. Maybe they would even think my immune system is strong enough to test.
Army Col. (Dr.) George E Peoples states that the military is so interested in the treatment of breast cancer because it is the most common cancer among military beneficiaries. I get the logic behind the business decision. But, somewhere there is a young mom out there who's case is like mine. Maybe E-75 will allow her to live cancer-free.
Does anyone out there have a connection to Dr. Peoples? Or even the commercial company Galena Biopharma, who will be conducting the next phase of testing for FDA approval?
In the end, whether a business decision or for the love of a young Mom and her children, CURING CANCER IS THE RIGHT THING TO DO!