Posted on 12/10/2015 5:20:30 PM PST by SeekAndFind
Pretty big news comes from the island nation known for the quality of its cigars.This news is already making big noise in the western medical world. Xinhua reports that Cuban medical authorities have released the first therapeutic vaccine for lung cancer. In Cuba, 20,000 people die each year of lung cancer.It is the leading cause of death in 12 of the 15 Cuban provinces.
CimaVax-EGF is the result of a 25-year research project at Havana's Center for Molecular Immunology, and it could make a life or death difference for those facing late-stage lung cancers, researchers there say.
CimaVax-EGF isn't a vaccine in the preventative sense-that is, it doesn't prevent lung cancer from taking hold in new patients. It's based on a protein related to uncontrolled cell proliferation-that is, it doesn't prevent cancer from existing in the first place but attacks the mechanism by which it does harm.
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.
The vaccine has already been tested in 1,000 patients in Cuba and is being distributed at hospitals there free of charge. That's 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.
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Yawn.......I’ll wait for the double blind study and hope it’s true. But knowing communist and liberals here hoping that Cuba somehow developed something that our great pharmaceutical companies couldn’t.
I’ll wager $20 that it’s just a form of chemo that is no better or worse than anything currently available at MD Anderson or Sloan-Kettering.
I have seen commercial Chicken raising operations with better hygiene standards than a Cuban hospital.
I would never mention MD Anderson and Sloan-Kettering in the same sentence as Cuba. They are the two best cancer centers in the World.
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