Research Found Evidence for Possibility of Cancer-Eliminating Vaccine

This is an exciting story for anybody that’s lost a friend or a family member to breast cancer. This is a hot button issue for many many people and so the prospect of having some kind of a breast cancer vaccine similar to what we’ve now been implementing with the vaccine to ward off genital warts, now we’re looking at possibilities of having a vaccine to improve survival or reduce the incidences of breast cancer.

This particular article I found was a research study from the Cleveland Clinic in Ohio and there was evidence that there could be a vaccine that would prevent cancers from forming. Remember cancers are exploded growth of certain cells in the body and so they just don’t’ get the- they don’t get the message to stop reproducing and they kind of go haywire and that’s where these tumors come from and they’re self-replicating and they just continue, they just not listen to anything else in the body. If there was some way, some vaccine that would tell the body to be more aggressive in shutting those things down, it could be a real boon and this has been that magic bullet that people have been looking for to deal with cancer and if there’s a way to target specific types of cancer and this article talks about breast cancer but the article then goes on to talk about that you could vaccinate against many different types of cancers potentially based on some recent research done looking into testing a vaccine where they’re looking at how this affects cellular growth and reproduction in these abnormal situations.

I’m looking forward to more of these things and these are still things out there in the future and certainly won’t come soon enough for some of our loved ones and even ourselves in some cases but I’d like to think that this is one of those things that 50 years from now, 30 years from now, maybe even 20 years from now, cancer will become a thing of the past much as many other diseases have become prevented and virtually disappeared from our cultural memory in the case of medications coming along to help treat them like vaccines or in the case of some serious infections, antibiotics that came along and really changed the outcomes for surgical patients and patients with injuries.

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This article has been featured in the news segment of the Nursing Show podcast episode Nursing Care of Pediatric Poisoning and Episode 137