Cuba registers "world's first lung cancer vaccine" in Peru

[rabs]

A major breakthrough in cancer research and treatment??

One would think that the CDC would consider cooperating with the Cuban scientists who have been researching this vaccine for 15 years.

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Health | January 10, 2011 < 18:42 >

A therapeutic vaccine against acute lung cancer developed in Cuba has been registered in Peru, reported the Spanish news agency EFE.

The vaccine, named CIMAVAX-EGF, is the “world’s first lung cancer vaccine,” according to Gisela González, medical researcher from the Immunologic Molecular Center (CIM) in Havana.

Gonzáles said it has been successfully applied in more than a thousand patients in Cuba.

The vaccine is currently registered in Peru and in process of being registered in Colombia, Brazil, Paraguay, Ecuador, and Argentina, said González. The specialist said the product will soon undergo a probation phase in China.

CIMAVAX-EGF is a result of 15 years of research in Cuba where it was registered in June 2008.

Story from Lima, Peru citing Spanish news agency EFE

http://www.livinginperu.com/news-13850-health-cuba-registers-worlds-first-lung-cancer-vaccine-peru

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Story from Havana

Havana, Jan 10 (Prensa Latina) The first therapeutic vaccine for advanced lung cancer was registered in Cuba and its effectiveness is being tested in other tumors such as prostate, uterus and breast.

The drug that is called CIMAVAX-EGF acts directly on the tumor, unlike traditional treatments focused on the chemo and radiation treatments, which are nonspecific and attack infected and healthy cells, the Cuban specialist Gisela González said.

In statements to the newspaper Trabajadores, the project leader said that many anti-cancer vaccine candidates were in the third phase of clinical trials because they do not show efficacy; however, CIMAVAX-EGF converts the advanced tumor into a chronic disease under control.

The vaccine is administered after conventional therapy when the patient is considered terminally ill patients without therapeutic alternative.

http://www.plenglish.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=253941&Itemid=1

[Tunkamerica]

1. not a cure, but awesome nonetheless

[EFerrari]

2. K&R