For a Weary World, Some Really Good News!

Ready for a game changer in medical science?  How about a Cancer Vaccine.

No, this is not fantasy of sci-fi fiction.  The Roswell Park Cancer Center in Buffalo, NY has announced a mega-advancement in cancer treatment.  The new NY-ESO-1 dendritic cell vaccine will be custom-made to individual patients, removing cancer cells, treating them, and then injecting those cells back into the patient to kill the specific cancer and prevent reoccurrence, an all too frequent situation for the 12 million cancer patients across the country today.

Think about it.  Everyone I know has experienced cancer, seen the disease savage loved ones, friends, colleagues or even take a toll in their personal wellbeing.  As Siddhartha Mukherjee eloquently wrote in 2010, cancer is ‘The Emperor of all Maladies’ and, in fact, is stitched into our DNA.  This vaccine development is extraordinary news and indicates great promise to patients with bladder, brain, breast, esophageal, gastrointestinal, hepatocellular, kidney, lung, melanoma, ovarian, prostate, sarcoma and uterine tumors.

A win in the battle against cancer.  It doesn’t get much better that!