In another possible breakthrough in the fight
against cancer, Mater Medical Research Institute's Professor Derek
Hart, of Brisbane, Australia, announced a clinical trial is underway for a metastatic prostate cancer vaccine. In
laboratory testing, the vaccine showed positive results in treating cancer cells. In the phase-one prostate cancer
vaccine trial, 12 patients will be given three vaccines at intervals of four weeks. The first clinical trial, to
determine the safety of the vaccine for humans, and if it will indeed generate the required immune response, is set to
be completed at the end of the year.The first breakthrough for a cancer vaccine came from Australia, when a vaccine to prevent cervical cancer was announced. Australia's scientists attribute these phenomenal breakthroughs on the support and funding researchers in that country receive for cancer research.
1. Please send any information concerning metastatic prostate cancer 4th stage, which I have. I've had
Casadex, Radiation series of 46, get a Lupron shot every four months, PSA is now less than 1, have been on Taxol Chemotherapy since October and now will have 3 treatments every 3 weeks of Mitoxantrone (20 mg)w/ 10 mg of Decadron and 0.25 mg of Aloxie (?).
Posted at 8:35AM on Feb 17th 2006 by Charles R. Copple