Mexico City /
Breast cancer is the most common malignant tumor among women in the world. In Mexico, it represents the leading cause of cancer death in women.
In recent years, the number of deaths caused by this disease has increased alarmingly, mainly because treatment is not started at the right time, allowing the disease to progress.
Fortunately, this is a topic that has greatly occupied different researchers around the world, looking for ways to prevent this disease.
That is why Specialists at the Mayo Clinic located in Rochester, Minnesota, developed a vaccine that could be instrumental in treating breast cancer. This has the purpose and objective of getting the vaccine to kill cancer cells before they can grow and develop in the body.
To test it, Lee Mercker, an American woman with early-stage breast cancer, It was the first to whom the treatment was applied, which lasted for 12 weeks.
Mercker was monitored and subjected to several clinical studies showing that the vaccine had had very positive results. in the elimination of the tumor, in addition to improving the immune system.
This has meant a great advance for medicine around the world but above all a hope for all women.
It is worth mentioning that although this test was a success, the volunteer did not want to risk and she decided to have a double mastectomy to make sure that cancer would not develop in her body in the future.
Leducating the population about the signs and symptoms of the disease, as well as self-examination, have been shown to be very useful in promoting awareness among women at risk and seeking early care. Furthermore, the systematic performance of mammograms in the population at risk has proven to be the most effective method for the early detection of breast cancer.
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