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Researchers at Cancer Treatment Centers of America in Illinois will soon begin testing a vaccine for ovarian cancer.
Ovarian cancer is often difficult to detect because the symptoms can be subtle and varied. They're often mistaken for other medical problems.
The vaccine is expected to stall, or even cure, ovarian cancer. Loyola University Medical Center is planning a separate ovarian cancer vaccine study.
Dr. Edgar Staren with the Cancer Treatment Centers of America states, "We have some evidence in preliminary studies that have shown exciting results with the ovarian cancer vaccine. Those are in fact preliminary, but nonetheless they give us the enthusiasm to move forward."
The researchers will produce the vaccine from a woman's own tumor tissue, to create a patient-specific treatment. The goal is to stimulate the immune system to fight the cancer.
Dr. Staren states, "What we do is utilize the different antenna, if you will, the receptors on the surface of those ovarian cancer cells. We then administer that back in a new formation, to the patient, so they can make an immune response to the tumor."
Dr. Staren further mentions that success in trials like this could lead to vaccines to treat other forms of cancer as well.
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