{"id":16721,"date":"2012-01-09T12:00:20","date_gmt":"2012-01-09T12:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=16721"},"modified":"2012-01-09T12:17:52","modified_gmt":"2012-01-09T12:17:52","slug":"cuba-launches-worlds-first-vaccine-against-lung-cancer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2012\/01\/cuba-launches-worlds-first-vaccine-against-lung-cancer\/","title":{"rendered":"Cuba Launches World’s First Vaccine against Lung Cancer"},"content":{"rendered":"

From the island nation known for the quality of its cigars comes some pretty big news today [3 Jan 2012]: Xinhua reports that Cuban medical authorities have released the first therapeutic vaccine for lung cancer. CimaVax-EGF is the result of a 25-year research project at Havana\u2019s Center for Molecular Immunology, and it could make a life or death difference for those facing late-stage lung cancers, researchers there say.<\/em><\/p>\n

CimaVax-EGF isn\u2019t a vaccine in the preventative sense–that is, it doesn\u2019t prevent lung cancer from taking hold in new patients. It\u2019s based on a protein related to uncontrolled cell proliferation–that is, it doesn\u2019t prevent cancer from existing in the first place but attacks the mechanism by which it does harm.<\/p>\n

As such it can turn aggressive later-stage lung cancer into a manageable chronic disease by creating antibodies that do battle with the proteins that cause uncontrolled cell proliferation, researchers say. Chemotherapy and radiotherapy are still recommended as a primary means of destroying cancerous tissue, but for those showing no improvement the new vaccine could be a literal lifesaver.<\/p>\n

The vaccine has already been tested in 1,000 patients in Cuba and is being distributed at hospitals there free of charge. That\u2019s a big deal for a country where smoking is part of the national culture and a leading cause of death. If it proves as successful as researchers say it is, it should give those suffering from lung cancer reason to celebrate–just not with a Cohiba.<\/p>\n

Source: PopSci<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

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From the island nation known for the quality of its cigars comes some pretty big news today [3 Jan 2012]: Xinhua reports that Cuban medical authorities have released the first therapeutic vaccine for lung cancer. CimaVax-EGF is the result of a 25-year research project at Havana\u2019s Center for Molecular Immunology, and it could make a life or death difference for those facing late-stage lung cancers, researchers there say.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16721","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16721","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16721"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16721\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16721"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16721"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16721"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}