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Generex Biotechnology and the USMCI: Armed with Antigens in the War Against Breast Cancer

Posted on June 23, 2008

The United States Military Cancer Institute has been investigating peptide based vaccines for therapuetic value in the war against breast cancer. Previous attempts at developing peptide vaccines for breast cancer had been largely disappointing. However, those vaccines were designed to treat metastatic disease.In contrast, the USMCI researchers, based at Walter Reed Army Medical Center, have been investigating novel peptide vaccines as a preventive therapy for patients who have been treated for breast cancer and have a high risk of recurrence. In particular, the researchers have focused their...

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