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October 2020Spread the HOPE, Find the CURE stronger togetherBREAST CANCER VACCINES IN love DEVELOPMENT hope

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Breast cancer affects both men and women and the family and friends who support them as they navigate diagnosis and subsequent treatments. According to the most recent statistics from BreastCancer.org, an estimated 276,480 new cases of invasive breast cancer are expected to be diagnosed in women in the United States in 2020. That estimate includes 48,530 new cases of noninvasive, or in situ, breast cancer. The average five-year survival rate for women with invasive breast cancer is 91 percent. While that’s good news, what if there was a breast FACTS cancer Surprising facts about cancer cancer vaccine that could eliminate the threat of breast cancer? Metro Creative

A vaccine may not be that far into the future. An experimental breast Cancer affects the lives of millions of people every day. Cancer can affect cancer vaccine already has been developed by Dr. Leishna Emens at the every aspect of patients’ lives as well as the lives of their families. Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center. Clinical trials are underway, but the concept behind the vaccine is to activate the immune system and Researchers recognize that there is still much to learn about cancer. The following are some facts about cancer that may surprise you, courtesy of the American Cancer Society, The World Health Organization, The cause immune cells that are typically unable to detect cancer cells to Canadian Cancer Society, and The National Cancer Institute. attack the cancer in the breast and throughout the body. Early studies ► An estimated 1.8 million new cancer cases will be diagnosed in the point to modest, but real improvement in survival rates. Dr. Emens United States in 2020, and 606,520 people will lose their lives to cancer continues to work with her team to study the efficacy of the vaccine. Other vaccines also have been in the works. Researchers at the in 2020. ► Seventy percent of all deaths from cancer occur in low- and middleincome countries. Mayo Clinic, supported in part by the Artemis Project ► There are more than 100 types of cancer, and any part of the body can of the National Breast Cancer Coalition, also are be affected. trying to develop a vaccine that will prevent ► Eighty percent of all cancers in the United States are diagnosed in breast cancer. Dr. Keith Knudson, who is developing this vaccine, has seen some people 55 years of age or older. ► On average, 617 Canadians will be diagnosed with cancer every day, and 228 will die from cancer each day. evidence of elimination of the breast ► Prostate, lung and colorectal cancers are the most commonly cancer tumor, as well as some evidence diagnosed cancers in men. Breast, lung and colorectal cancers are the most of the immune system responding. commonly diagnosed cancers in women. Dr. Knudson’s team is seeking more trial subjects to continue testing ► Roughly 67 percent of Americans diagnosed with cancer survive five or more years after diagnosis. ► Between 30 and 50 percent of cancers are preventable. Tobacco use is the vaccine. the single largest preventable cause of cancer in the world.

Science and medicine are working ► Between 1991 and 2017, there have been two million fewer cancer tirelessly to develop a vaccine that deaths for the most common types of cancer in the United States. can prevent or cure breast cancer. There is still more work to be done, ► Lung cancer and colorectal cancer account for 14 percent and 12 percent, respectively, of new cases of cancer in Canada. ► Maintaining a healthy body mass index, exercising regularly and but early trials offer some hope that eating high amounts of fruits and vegetables are some ways to reduce this disease may soon be defeated.  cancer risk. 

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