New vaccine developed to treat breast cancer

Suffering from breast cancer?

Here is good news for you!

Scientists, led by the University of Pennsylvania, say they have developed a vaccine to treat breast cancer, using a patient's own cells. 

The doctors said 85% of the patients with breast cancer showed promising result when treated with the new vaccine.

The researchers, intent on making a medicine for breast cancer, isolated specialized white cells using standard techniques similar to blood donation. The cells were then treated in a laboratory to allow the immune system to recognize the breast  cancerous cells as foreign particles and attack them.

The news bulletin added that each breast cancer affected patient received four weekly injections of their personalized vaccine and had surgery two weeks later to remove any remaining breast cancer cells.