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What about a breast cancer vaccine?

Posted on October 07, 2008

It s already been done with cervical cancer, so why not develop a vaccine for breast cancer? That s the challenge that Professor Valerie Beral of Oxford University asks the scientific community. The lead scientist in the Million Women s Study says that the causes of breast cancer have been so well studied that a vaccine or a prophylactic drug is should be a real possibility. Speaking to the UK Guardian, Beral suggested that genes played a part in only a small number of breast cancer. Instead, it s the processes of birth and breastfeeding that protect a woman from breast cancer more th...

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breast cancer , breastfeeding , cancer , cervical cancer , pregnancy