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Back to YEAR 8 SCIENCE NEWSPAPER =//__BREAST CANCER VACCINE WORKS ON MOUSES!__//= American scientists from Cleveland Clinic Lerner Research Institute has developed a vaccine which is capable of stopping breast cancer develope in mice . If this vaccine later be developed to be able to work on humans, it would be a massive science breakthrough. Even though the scientists warn that it may take another several years for the vaccine to be fully made and distributed among the human race. The immunologist leading the research stated that the vaccine targets a kind of protein found in most breast tumors.



A-lactalbumin is a antigen believed that is able to stop the development of breast cancer, this is proven when a few mouses were put on tests. Half of the mouses were given a vaccine containing a-lactalbumin and the other half without the antigen. The half with the a-lactalbumin vaccine did not develop breast cancer, while the others did. This can be the next major breakthrough of the only 2 US approved cancer vaccines, liver cancer and cervical cancer. However, these vaccines target viruses the human papillomavirus (HPV) and the Hepatitis B virus (HBV) - not cancer formation itself. And developing a vaccine which targets the cancer tumor itself is difficult and dangerous, as cancer is developed from the bearer's own tissue and body, destroying it can cause many problems.