Posts Tagged ‘Aggressive tumors’

Vaccine Against Lung Cancer

In the event that the vaccine successfully respond to the tests being carried out, would prove that it can function as a therapeutic immunization, delaying the progress of the condition.

Each year in the country are nearly 10,000 cases of lung cancer, the most common worldwide. Indeed, if the evidence in progress and will soon start a laboratory in Brazil show good results, physicians may have a new weapon against this disease, one of the most aggressive tumors and lower survival after diagnosis, because it is usually detected when and metastases.

Although up to now has results in few patients, it is expected that these studies in Brazil, plus others in Argentina, Uruguay, Cuba, India, Singapore, Taiwan and South Korea to 1082 included patients, a statistically significant number. Read the rest of this entry »