Cuba has had a lung cancer vaccine for years
Cuba has had a lung cancer vaccine for years
Ioan Grillo
on Apr 23, 2015 @ 4:57 PM
MEXICO CITY — When Cuba and the United States said they were going to be friends again, images sprang to mind of Americans tanning on once-forbidden beaches, and McDonald’s opening in picturesque Habana Vieja.
That may happen. But this partnership clearly has more promising plans. Turns out Cuba’s been sitting on a breakthrough cancer treatment. Now it’s going to test it out in America.
This week, the Roswell Park Cancer Institute of Buffalo, New York signed an agreement to import a Cuban lung cancer vaccine. The drug CimaVax helps treat symptoms and recurrence, said institute director Candace Johnson, when she returned Tuesday from a two-day trade trip to the island.
“(Lung cancer) patients have a very high risk for recurrence. You have one nodule, you know you are maybe going to be get another nodule. You could take perhaps this vaccine that could help prevent a recurrence,” Johnson told Buffalo TV's WIVB News 4.
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The institute will conduct clinical trials of CimaVax in the United States and seek approval from the Food and Drug Administration, Johnson said. Cuban scientists will also visit Buffalo to help with testing and research.
More:
http://www.globalpost.com/article/6526566/2015/04/23/cuba-lung-cancer-vaccine-new-york
Science:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/122838290
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My 80 year old aunt is back in chemo for lung cancer. We thought she had it beat. 
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Author: TELESUR | internet@granma.cu
april 23, 2015 15:04:34
The Cuban Immunology Center and the Roswell Park Cancer Institute of New York signed an agreement Tuesday for the U.S. to import a therapeutic vaccine against lung cancer developed by Cuba.
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“Signing this agreement means we can immerse ourselves in clinical trials when we return to New York,” said Candance Johnson, director of the U.S.-based Roswell Park institute.
The agreement was signed as part of a business delegation visit to Cuba headed by New York Governor Andrew Cuomo.
“We are very excited to be able to bring the vaccine to the U.S. and to treat patients,” Candance said.
Cuba created the vaccine in 2011 after 15 years of research. Brazil, Argentina and Colombia are currently applying to have access to the vaccine, while the U.K and Australia have already carried out their own clinical trials.
The business delegation also saw an agreement between New York company Infor, and a Cuban organization. “We are surprised by the level and experience that there is in Cuba in health and technology,” company representative Charles Phillips stated.
More:
http://en.granma.cu/mundo/2015-04-23/cuba-to-export-cancer-vaccine-to-us-new-york-governor-confirms
But you gotta roll your eyes at this:
The business delegation also saw an agreement between New York company Infor, and a Cuban organization. “We are surprised by the level and experience that there is in Cuba in health and technology,” company representative Charles Phillips stated. --from the OP
Gee, I wonder who did no reporting on the high level and experience in Cuba's health and technology sectors!?????
Let me think:
Gee, I can't think who didn't do that.
July 5, 2014 · 11:15 am
Cuba develops four cancer vaccines, ignored by the media
The fact that Cuba has already developed four cancer vaccines undoubtedly is big news for humanity if you bear in mind that according to the World Health Organization nearly 8 million people die from that disease every year. However, the monopoly media have completely ignored this reality.
In 2012, Cuba patented the first therapeutic vaccine in the world against advanced lung cancer, called CIMAVAX-EGF. In January 2013, the island announced the second cancer vaccine, known as Racotumomab.
Clinical tests, carried out in 86 nations, revealed that though these vaccines do not cure the disease, they do reduce the tumors thus improving the quality and expectancy of life of the patients.
Vaccines developed by Cuba’s Molecular Immunology Centre
The Havana-based Molecular Immunology Center is the creator of these vaccines. The center had already developed the Meningitis-B Vaccine in 1985, one of its kind in the world. Later there came other vaccines, such as the Hepatitis-B and the Dengue. Experts at the entity have been researching for years on a HIV-Aids vaccine as well.
More:
https://tonyseed.wordpress.com/2014/07/05/cuba-develops-four-cancer-vaccines-ignored-by-the-media/#more-9197