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New Vaccine Prevents Prostate Cancer in Mice

University of Southern California (USC) researchers have come up with a test vaccine that successfully prevents prostate cancer development in 90 percent of mice genetically engineered to contract the disease.

This preventive vaccine is the new approach that specifically target the pre-cancerous state with the aim of preventing cancer from developing.and
 is designed to mount an immune response against prostate stem cell antigen (PSCA), the protein target of some therapeutic vaccines under development.

According to researchers this new vaccine could be a new hope as it seems to produce a response in any tissue that expresses the antigen.

The study is published in one of the recent issues of Cancer Research.

Tags: prevention, prostate cancer, vaccine